Budging vs Budling - What's the difference?
budging | budling |
A small, young, or immature bud.
*1946 , Herbert John Webber, Leon Dexter Batchelor, The Citrus Industry :
*2011 , Harry Turtledove, A World of Difference :
As a verb budging
is .As a noun budling is
a small, young, or immature bud.budling
English
Noun
(en noun)- When, with the entire population of 389 trees, budling size was correlated with total five-year yield of fruit per tree in the eight-year-old orchard, the coefficient was +0.517 ± 0.025; and with variants removed this was reduced to - 0.233 ± 0.034.
- "Seeing the new budling' reminds me life goes on, that's all. ... Not even Temat should have to listen to him maundering on so, let alone the ' budling -keeper, whose biggest responsibility was making sure his charges did not kill one another [...]"