budding

British  

/ ˈbʌdɪŋ /

adjective

1. at an early stage of development but showing promise or potential

   a budding genius

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budding Scientific  

/ bŭd′ĭng /

1. 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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Example Sentences

She also helped maintain Disney’s direct line to Fairyland, as Disney in 1957 would once again poach from Fairyland, this time puppeteer Bob Mills to run Disneyland’s budding marionette program.

From Los Angeles Times

"It was just surreal," says Marot, and "hugely encouraging for a budding wildlife filmmaker".

From BBC

His workshops teach budding photographers to learn and read animal behaviour.

From BBC

Back in America, the budding liberal intellectual’s name was showing up atop impressive essays and reviews in the New Yorker and Partisan Review.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the late 1950s, a Lehman Brothers broker named Arthur L. Carter moved into an apartment in East Rockaway, New York, to raise his budding family.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• burgeoning
• fledgling
• growing
• incipient
• nascent
• promising