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budling

budling noun: a small, young, or immature bud.

Noun

budling (plural budlings)

  1. A small, young, or immature bud.
    • When, with the entire population of 389 trees, budling size was correlated with total five-year yield of fruit per tree in the eight-year-old orchard, the coefficient was +0.517 ± 0.025; and with variants removed this was reduced to - 0.233 ± 0.034.1946, Herbert John Webber, Leon Dexter Batchelor, The Citrus Industry
    • "Seeing the new budling reminds me life goes on, that's all. ... Not even Temat should have to listen to him maundering on so, let alone the budling-keeper, whose biggest responsibility was making sure his charges did not kill one another [...]"2011, Harry Turtledove, A World of Difference

Forms of budling

pluralbudlings

Origin of budling

From bud + -ling.

Questions about budling

What does budling mean?
Budling means a small, young, or immature bud.
What part of speech is budling?
Budling is a noun.
What is the plural of budling?
The plural of budling is budlings.

Words near budling in the dictionary

  1. budless
  2. budlessness
  3. budlet
  4. budlets
  5. budlike
  6. budling
  7. budlings
  8. Budlong
  9. Budlongs
  10. budmash
  11. budmashes

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