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The act or process of producing buds.

Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.

To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. Shak.

made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.

Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.

One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.

A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.

Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.

The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.

Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.

Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.

Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusæ.

The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

To produce zooids by budding.

The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.

Producing young by budding.

An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.

A germinating, or budding. Dr. H. More.