budding
/ (ˈbʌdɪŋ) /
at an early stage of development but showing promise or potential: a budding genius
Words Nearby budding
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How to use budding in a sentence
Anova Precision Cooker is the perfect little sous-vide gadget for the budding gastronomist.
The Daily Beast’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Richard Hendriks in Your Life | Allison McNearney | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe best that can be said for these budding radicals is that at least they sincerely hate the thing they so viciously attack.
His maquettes, or models, illustrate this, too, in their budding materiality.
The children teased my parents about their budding romance and my parents, in turn, fell in love with their tiny wards.
She got involved in interning as a way to jumpstart her budding modeling career.
The house itself was embedded in a thickly-wooded garden where the trees were just budding into leaf.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsShe made me a profound and graceful curtsey—feminine homage to my budding manhood.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowThe proglottides are sexually complete individuals, derived from the scolex by budding.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddWait until you have been really initiated into intellectual Bohemia—the clever young newspaper men and budding authors.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonHe watches the budding of evil instincts, the ignoble habits idly acquired in degradation.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier
Scientific definitions for budding
[ bŭd′ĭng ]
A form of asexual reproduction in living organisms in which new individuals form from outgrowths (buds) on the bodies of mature organisms. These outgrowths grow by means of mitotic cell division. Many simple multicellular animals such as hydras and unicellular organisms such as yeasts reproduce by budding.
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