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Gemmation

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n. asexual reproduction via gemmae

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.

n. The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In botany, the act of budding; also, the manner in which a young leaf is folded up in the bud before its unfolding.

n. In zoology, the process of reproduction by buds; the formation of a new individual by the protrusion and complete or partial separation of a part of the parent; budding.

n. Also called gemmulation.

n. The arrangement or phyllotaxy of leaf-buds.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

asexual reproduction agamogenesis

Cross Reference

calicular gemmation cœnenchymal gemmation continuous gemmation entogastric gemmation calycinal gemmation

Variant

budding

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

gemmulation budding