budding

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budding

  • /ˈbʌdiŋ/

Rhymes with -ʌdɪŋ

adjective

  1. not comparable Beginning to develop. He's a budding deejay.

noun buddings

  1. countable, uncountable The development of buds on a plant.
  2. countable, uncountable The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark.

    Similar: bud grafting

  3. countable, uncountable The result of this practice. Whatever the mode of origin, buddings from a particular bud-parent have been found to agree in habit and general characteristics, while all buddings develop similar features which distinguish them from seedling trees.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of bud

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Closest in meaning: undeveloped, sprouting, gemmation, grass, embryonic, newborn, stemming, infant, popup, pop-up, arising, emerging, flourishing, thriving, emergent, nascent

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@misc{budding_2026,
  title = {budding},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/budding},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}