Budding

n.	1.	The act or process of producing buds.
	2.	(Biol.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
	3.	The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

Noun	1.	budding - reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent
Adj.	1.	budding - beginning to develop; "a budding genius"

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