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Webster 1913 Edition
Budding
Bud′ding
,Noun.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Budding
BUD'DING
,ppr.