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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Therefore in many of such lower organisms such a congeries of ancestral gemmules must exist in every part of their bodies, since in them every part is capable of reproducing by gemmation.
From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George
Stravadium has very minute stipules, the habit and gemmation is that of Ternstræmiaceæ, and it perhaps connects this order with Myrtaceæ; Punica from this is certainly distinct, owing præter alia to its valvate calyx.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
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
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 Darwin, Charles
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 Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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