Budding

·noun The act or process of producing buds.

II. Budding ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Bud.

III. Budding ·noun The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

IV. Budding ·noun 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.