cell budding http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl budding A form of asexual reproduction, occurring in certain bacteria and fungi (e.g. yeasts) and some primitive animals in which an individual arises from a daughter cell formed by pinching off a part of the parent cell. The budlike outgrowths so formed may sometimes remain attached to the parent cell. asexual reproduction reproduction of a single-celled organism cell division