budling means A small, young, or immature bud. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From bud + -ling.
noun
- A small, young, or immature bud.“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.”