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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Minor, W. C., gemmation and fission in the Annelida, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
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 Allen, Grant
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
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)
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
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