outbudding

plural outbuddings

1. A bud; a new outgrowth that is beginning to develop.

   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

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   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 outbuddings of spring, the wealth and greenery of summer, with all its whisperings and music and rippling laughter, the blue of autumn, with its fruitage, its expansive horizons, its glory veiling temporary decay.

   1889 March, Walter Besant, “The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 266, number 1899, page 259

   Beetle horns differe in that they (1) appear not to be specified during embryonic development, (b) grow from the start as three-dimensional epidermal outbuddings, (c) have their growth confined to the relatively brief prepupal stage (~ 48 h), and (d) as they grow, evaginate into the space between epidermis and larval cuticle (Moczek, 2006a; Fig. 6.3B).

   2009, Evolution and Development, page 141

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of outbud