gemmation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gemmation
From the French word gemmation, dating back to 1750–60. See gemmate, -ion
Example Sentences
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If this fact were fully established, it would, by the aid of our hypothesis, connect gemmation and sexual reproduction in the closest manner.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
Through gemmation, differentiation, segmentation, evolution, or whatever other technical expressions we may use for division, multiplication, budding, increase, etc., each cell became a hundred, a thousand, a million.
From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
At this stage of development, the author frequently observed gemmation taking place at the thicker end, sometimes frequently repeated.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
Machinery Hall has illustrated, from its earliest days, the process of development by gemmation.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
Minor, W. C., gemmation and fission in the Annelida, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
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