budding

budding has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• p. pr. & vb. n.. of Bud
• n.. The act or process of producing buds.
• n.. 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.
• n.. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
• 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
• a.. beginning to develop; "a budding genius"