bunching

bunching

1. present participle of bunch

bunching (countable and uncountable, plural bunchings)

1. (countable) An arrangement of items in a bunch.
   • 1974, Isabella Bird, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands, amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes

     The foreign ladies, in their simple, tasteful, fresh attire, innocent of the humpings and bunchings, the monstrosities and deformities of ultra-fashionable bad taste, beamed with cheerfulness, friendliness, and kindliness.

2. (uncountable) The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays.

• Japanese bunching onion

• buncher