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Definition of Gemmation

1. Noun. Asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual.

Definition of Gemmation

1. 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.

Definition of Gemmation

1. Noun. (biology) asexual reproduction via gemmae ¹

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Definition of Gemmation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Gemmation

1. 1. The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding. 2. The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud. Origin: Cf. F. Gemmation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gemmation

Literary usage of Gemmation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"THE PROCESS OF gemmation IN ANIMALS IF, with von Wagner, we look upon gemmation as 'a process in which entire individuals are formed anew,' and which ..."

2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"... gemmation. to resemble more and more the post-abdomen of the parent before ... gemmation of other Tunicates is to be derived, must still be regarded as ..."

3. Human physiology, statical and dynamical, or, The conditions and course of by John William Draper (1878)
"Influence of Temperature on gemmation. Alternations of Generation.—Its Explanation. IN the popular view of the organic world, each individual being is ..."

4. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"As already indicated, we may perhaps some day be able to refer back the capacity shown throughout the animal kingdom for asexual reproduction by gemmation ..."

5. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"Hydra fusca in gemmation; a, mouth; b, base ; c, origin of one of the bud*. by external temperature; the eggs being produced at the approach of winter, ..."

6. A Manual of Zoology by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1870)
"In basal gemmation the mode of increase is by means of a rudimentary ... The parietal mode of gemmation is the commonest, and it gives rise chiefly to ..."

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