budding out

Verb

bud out (third-person singular simple present buds out, present participle budding out, simple past and past participle budded out)

1. (intransitive) To develop buds.
   • For three years we put out pear trees; they have budded out and that is all they have done since.1887, Biennial Report of the State Board of Horticulture, Sacramento: State Office, page 171
2. (ambitransitive) To erupt or to push out, as or in the manner of a bud.
   • Maples of the Japanese kinds are now budding out, and they make beautiful greenhouse foliage plants.1892 March 21, “Cool greenhouse plants”, in Gardening Illustrated, page 29
3. (transitive) To produce in the manner of a bud or as though by budding.
   • It is not hard to maintain a flourishing marine aquarium even in an inland town, and a scyphistoma may be kept alive in an aquarium for years, budding out its strobila every spring.1897 August 26, L.C. Miall, “Section D. Zoology”, in Nature, page 406