budding
budding Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Beginning to develop or show signs of promise in a particular career, skill, or field.
"The community theater program provides an ideal stage for budding actors to refine their craft."
Putting forth or covered with buds, as a plant or tree in spring.
"A sudden late frost threatened to damage the budding apple trees in the orchard."
• noun
A form of asexual reproduction in organisms such as yeasts and hydras in which a new individual develops from an outgrowth or bud on the parent.
"Under the microscope, the students observed how yeast cells multiply rapidly through budding."
A horticultural grafting technique in which a single bud from one plant is inserted into the bark of the rootstock of another.
"Commercial rose growers frequently use budding to propagate desirable varieties onto hardy rootstocks."