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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Budding

/bŭd'-ĭng/ · Bud·ding · IPA /ˈbʌdiŋ/
01 n. The act or process of producing buds.
  1. 1.
    The act or process of producing buds.
  2. 2.
    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.(Biol.) See: Hydroidea
  3. 3.
    The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.