Definitions for gemmule

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gemmule gem·mule

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IPA: /ˈdʒɛm yul/

Gemmule is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in gemmule (eeglmmu).

Definitions for gemmule

noun

1. Botany. gemma.
2. Zoology. an asexually produced mass of cells that is capable of developing into an animal, as a freshwater sponge.
3. Evolution. one of the hypothetical living units conceived by Darwin in the theory of pangenesis as the bearers of the hereditary attributes.

Origin of gemmule

1835-45; French Latin gemmula. See gemma, -ule

Examples for gemmule

As a theory the gemmule plot is just as good and just as bad scientifically as Weismann's.

Darwin's gemmule Theory is the same guessing; and Weismann rejects it because he did not think of it first.

In some of the gemmules before me this coat measures in thickness about 1/9 of the total diameter of the gemmule.

The outer coat forms a kind of mantle by means of the skirts of which the gemmule is fastened to the support of the sponge.

The terminal growing bud of the axis is called the plumule or gemmule (g), and represents the ascending axis.

We can easily conceive a being so small, that a gemmule would be to it as large as St. Paul's would be to us.

Any part of a gemmule would be an impossible (because a less than possible) quantity.