Initializing and Budding

noun

• Reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent.

verb

• Develop buds.
  • usage: "The hibiscus is budding"
  • synonyms: bud
• Start to grow or develop.
  • usage: "a budding friendship"
  • synonyms: bud

adjective

• Beginning to develop.
  • usage: "a budding genius"

• (n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
• (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.