[{"word":"budding","phonetic":"/ˈbʌdiŋ/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈbʌdiŋ/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To form buds.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The trees are finally starting to bud."},{"definition":"To reproduce by splitting off buds.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Yeast reproduces by budding."},{"definition":"To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To put forth as a bud.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark; the result of this practice.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["bud grafting"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"adjective","definitions":[{"definition":"Beginning to develop.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bud","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/budding"]}]