budding
/ˈbʌdiŋ/ noun C1- The development of buds on a plant.
- The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark.
- The result of this practice.
Plural buddings
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Père Pamphile had seen Dantès pass not ten minutes before; and assured that he was at the Catalans, they sat down under the budding foliage of the planes and sycamores, in the branches of which the birds were singing their welcome to one of the first days of spring.
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