Definition of budding

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Budding (n.) The act or process of producing buds.

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Saccharomyces :: Saccharomyces (n.) A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula..
Pseudembryo :: Pseudembryo (n.) An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.
Blastogenesis :: Blastogenesis (n.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
Social :: Social (a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians..
Budding :: Budding (n.) The act or process of producing buds.
Bud :: Bud (v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin..
Proliferation :: Proliferation (n.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession..
Bryozoa :: Bryozoa (n. pl.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa..
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..
Proliferous :: Proliferous (a.) Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
Individual :: Individual (n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission..
Proliferous :: Proliferous (a.) Producing young by budding.
Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..
Gemmiparity :: Gemmiparity (n.) Reproduction by budding; gemmation. 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..
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..
Budding :: Budding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bu.
Entogastric :: Entogastric (a.) Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids..
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..
Cytogenesis :: Cytogenesis (n.) Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell..
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