Definitions for gemmation

gemmation gem·ma·tion

Spelling: [je-mey-shuh n]
IPA: /dʒɛˈmeɪ ʃən/

Gemmation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 425 anagrams from letters in gemmation (aegimmnot).

Definitions for gemmation

noun

  1. reproduction by gemmae.

Origin of gemmation

From the French word gemmation, dating back to 1750-60. See gemmate, -ion

Examples for gemmation

In the next group the gemmation takes a spiral bias, producing the nautilus shape which misled the earlier naturalists.

The second are composite, increasing by gemmation; walls spongy and porous; septa lamellous, and well developed.

gemmation is a far commoner occurrence amongst the simpler than amongst the more highly organised forms.

gemmation is by far the most widely disseminated of the two.

By gemmation, or budding, somewhat after the manner of plants.

This is the process of generation by budding or gemmation, of which we spoke on a previous page.

It has already been stated that both parthenogenesis and gemmation are ultimately derived from sexual reproduction.

Ignorant of the joys and cares of wedlock, he increases by gemmation.

Machinery Hall has illustrated, from its earliest days, the process of development by gemmation.

In some other cases medusoid develops directly from medusoid (hypogenesis), whether by sexual cells or by gemmation.

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