Definition of budding

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Budding (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..

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Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) 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..
Yeast :: Yeast (n.) A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth..
Bryozoa :: Bryozoa (n. pl.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa..
Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..
Proliferous :: Proliferous (a.) Producing young by budding.
Social :: Social (a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians..
Blastogenesis :: Blastogenesis (n.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
Emplastration :: Emplastration (n.) The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding.
Bud :: Bud (v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin..
Repullulation :: Repullulation (n.) The act of budding again; the state of having budded again.
Proliferate :: Proliferate (v. t.) To produce zooids by budding.
Budding :: Budding (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..
Budding :: Budding (n.) The act or process of producing buds.
Proliferous :: Proliferous (a.) Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
Proliferation :: Proliferation (n.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession..
Gemmipares :: Gemmipares (n. pl.) Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids..
Gemmation :: Gemmation (n.) The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding..
Sporocyst :: Sporocyst (n.) An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia..
Pullulation :: Pullulation (n.) A germinating, or budding..
Pseudembryo :: Pseudembryo (n.) An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.
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