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 St. George Mivart
HUXLEY, Prof., on the transmission of polydactylism. -on unconscious selection. -on correlation in the mollusca. -on gemmation and fission. -development of star-fishes.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
This brood is again wingless, and it proceeds at once to bud out several generations more, by internal gemmation, as long as the warm weather lasts.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen
The starting-point, not only of every higher animal or plant, but of every clan of organisms which by fission or gemmation have sprung from a single organism, is always a spore, seed, or ovum.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
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
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