budding

n. 1. The act or process of producing buds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark. [ 1913 Webster ]