- (a.) Producing young by budding.
- (a.) Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced or to a branch or frond from which another rises or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae.
- (a.) Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
- (a.) Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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