Asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual.

synonym: gemmation.

Roget 194: expansion; increase of size etc. 35; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation^†; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence^†, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion^†; obesity etc. (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.]; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation^†.    dilatability, expansibility.    germination, growth, upgrowth^†; accretion etc. 35; budding, gemmation^†.    overgrowth, overdistension^†; hypertrophy, tympany^†.    bulb etc. (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size.    [expansion of the universe] big bang; Hubble constant.    ... show more

Roget 168: productiveness etc. adj.; fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty^†.    pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation; superfetation.    milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth^†; arrish^†, eddish^†, rowen^†; protoplasm; fertilization.    ... show more

Polish: proliferacja, pączkowanie

A rapid and abundant increase.