Chloanthesis

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Chloanthesis is a form of darsis in which a child creature is split off from a much larger parent, the latter remaining mostly unchanged by the process. It is sometimes informally called budding, but that term more technically refers to a form of reproduction in which the parent splits off a genetically identical copy; in chloanthesis more generally, the child may be very different from the parent despite beginning as part of it.