Budding means just beginning to develop. A budding writer, budding romance, budding talent.
It is hopeful and slightly patronising, since calling somebody a budding anything implies they have not arrived. In botany it is literal, and in horticulture budding is a grafting method using a single bud. In biology, budding is how a yeast or a hydra reproduces, by growing a copy off itself.
1adjectivebuddingJust beginning to develop.
“The magazine publishes short stories by budding young writers.”
2nounreproductionReproduction by growing a copy off oneself.
“Under the microscope, we could see budding in the hydra, with a baby forming on its side.”
budding is a quality of early growth.
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire