BUDDINGS
Noun
buddings
plural of budding
Source: Wiktionary
BUDDING
Bud"ding, n.
1. The act or process of producing buds.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: 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.
3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another
stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
BUD
Bud, n. Etym: [OE. budde; cf. D. bot, G. butze, butz, the core of a
fruit, bud, LG. butte in hagebutte, hainbutte, a hip of the dog-rose,
or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button, OF. boter to bud, push; all
akin to E. beat. See Button.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant,
containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an
undeveloped branch or flower.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and
vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or
attached. See Hydra. Bud moth (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of
several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp.
Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.
Bud, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Budded; p. pr. & vb. n. Budding.]
1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does,
into a flower or shoot.
2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud,
as a horn.
3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and
promise; as, a budding virgin. Shak.
Syn.
– To sprout; germinate; blossom.
Bud, v. t.
Definition: To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting
a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order
to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it
would naturally bear.
The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon
the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm.
Dict.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition