[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bud \bud\, v. i. imp.  p. p. budded; p. pr.  vb. n.
   budding.
   1. to put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a
      bud does, into a flower or shoot.
      1913 webster

   2. to begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner
      of a bud, as a horn.
      1913 webster

   3. to be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or
      growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --shak.
      1913 webster

   syn: to sprout; germinate; blossom.
        1913 webster
see also:
budded budding 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

budding \bud"ding\, n.
   1. the act or process of producing buds.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   3. the act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon
      another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
      1913 webster
see also:
hydroidea 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bud
     n 1: a partially opened flower
     2: a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping
        immature leaves or petals
     v 1: develop buds; "the hibiscus is budding"
     2: start to grow or develop; "a budding friendship"
     also: budding, budded
see also:
budding budded 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

budding
     adj : beginning to develop; "a budding genius"
     n : reproduction of some unicellular organisms such as yeasts
         by growth and specialization followed by the separation
         by constriction of a part of the parent

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

budding
     see bud
see also:
bud 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

95 moby thesaurus words for "budding":
   abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, beginning,
   blooming, blossoming, burgeoning, callow, creative, crescent,
   developed, dewy, elemental, elementary, embryonic, fetal,
   florescent, flourishing, flowering, formative, foundational,
   full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, fundamental, gestatory,
   green, growing, grown, grown-up, hypertrophied, immature, impubic,
   in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive,
   inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, inexperienced,
   infant, infantile, ingenuous, initial, initiative, initiatory,
   innocent, intact, introductory, inventive, juicy, mature, minor,
   naive, nascent, natal, new-fledged, original, overdeveloped,
   overgrown, parturient, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal,
   primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, raw,
   ripening, rudimental, rudimentary, sappy, sprouting, tender,
   thriving, unadult, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed,
   unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, ur, vernal, virginal

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