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outbudding

outbudding noun: a bud; a new outgrowth that is beginning to develop. Also the present participle and gerund of outbud.

Noun

outbudding (plural outbuddings)

  1. A bud; a new outgrowth that is beginning to develop.
    • The tendency of modern science is to close this gate—though it can never stop the search for it—the vague desire after some kind of communication, some kind of poetic identification with the soul that reveals itself through the rolling year, the mysterious presence that is felt to lie behind the...1889 March, Walter Besant, “The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 266, number 1899, page 259
    • The sprouts proliferate and canalize to form the lactiferous ducts and the outbuddings form the alveoli of the mammary glands.1997, Comprehensive Toxicology: Reproductive and endocrine toxicology, page 258

Also used as

outbudding is also the present participle and gerund of outbud.

Forms of outbudding

pluraloutbuddings

Questions about outbudding

What does outbudding mean?
Outbudding means a bud; a new outgrowth that is beginning to develop.
What part of speech is outbudding?
Outbudding is a noun.
What is the plural of outbudding?
The plural of outbudding is outbuddings.

Words near outbudding in the dictionary

  1. outbrother
  2. outbrothers
  3. outbrought
  4. outbud
  5. outbudded
  6. outbudding
  7. outbuddings
  8. outbuds
  9. outbuild
  10. outbuilding
  11. outbuildings

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