Producing buds: as, a budding tree.
Being in the condition of a bud; figuratively, being in an early stage of growth; being at the entrance of a period of life, a career, etc.: as, a budding orator.
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In botany, the putting forth or producing of buds.
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In zoology, gemmation; a mode of asexual reproduction in animals analogous to budding in plants.
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In horticulture, a process, allied to grafting, for growing a different variety of fruit or plant from a given stock by transferring a bud with a little of the woody tissue behind it to a cleft in the bark of the stock.