budding

Pluralbuddings (some meanings)

1. 1
   adjective

   Just starting to grow or develop.

   My little brother is a budding artist who draws every day.

   The town is proud of its budding music scene.

   Similaraspiring, fledgling, emerging, developing, burgeoning

   Oppositeestablished

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2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of bud. Use it after "is" or "was", or as a name for the action.

   The trees on our street are budding early this spring.

   Small horns were budding on the young goat's head.

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   The growing of new buds on a plant.

   The warm weather caused early budding on the rose bushes.

   There was very little budding on the old tree this spring.

4. 4
   noununcountable

   A way of joining one bud from a plant onto the roots or bark of another plant.

   Budding is a common way to grow new rose bushes.

   In class we tried budding on some small young apple trees.

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   A plant that grows from a bud joined onto the roots or bark of another plant.

   Every budding in this row came from the same old tree.

   The young buddings were planted next to trees grown from seed.

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