ALL meanings of budding
bud
B b - adjective budding If you describe someone as, for example, a budding businessman or a budding artist, you mean that they are starting to succeed or become interested in business or art. 3
- adjective budding You use budding to describe a situation that is just beginning. 3
- adjective budding at an early stage of development but showing promise or potential 3
- noun budding a type of asexual reproduction in which a new individual or branch develops from an outgrowth on the body of a plant or certain lower animals 3
- noun budding Mycology. a small, rounded outgrowth produced from a fungus spore or cell by a process of asexual reproduction, eventually separating from the parent cell as a new individual: commonly produced by yeast and a few other fungi. 1
- noun budding Anatomy. any small rounded part. 1
- noun budding an immature or undeveloped person or thing. 1
- noun budding Slang. marijuana, especially potent marijuana from the buds, or flowering tops, of the hemp plant. 1
- verb without object budding to put forth or produce buds. 1
- verb without object budding to begin to develop. 1
- verb without object budding to be in an early stage of development. 1
- verb with object budding to cause to bud. 1
- verb with object budding Horticulture. to graft by inserting a single bud into the stock. 1
- idioms budding in the bud, in an immature or undeveloped state: a Shakespeare in the bud. Also, in bud. 1
- idioms budding nip in the bud, to stop (something) in the beginning of its development: The rebellion was nipped in the bud. 1
- adjective budding person: developing 1
- adjective budding plant: producing buds 1
- noun budding Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant. 1
- noun budding Zoology. (in certain animals of low organization) a prominence that develops into a new individual, sometimes permanently attached to the parent and sometimes becoming detached; gemma. 1
- noun budding (horticulture) The result of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark. 0
- verb budding present participle of bud. 0
- adjective budding That is beginning to develop. 0