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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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 Spencer, Herbert
Cryptogamous plants with a distinct axis or stem, growing from the apex, and commonly not with later increase in diameter, usually furnished with distinct leaves; reproduction by antheridia and archegonia, sometimes also by gemmation.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Clark, H. J., on fission and gemmation, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
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
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 Darwin, Charles
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