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Definition of Gemmations
1. gemmation [n] - See also: gemmation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gemmations
Literary usage of Gemmations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... to the early extension of the composite structure a more or less spiral
direction,§ which only gives place to the cyclical after repeated gemmations. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"... is at right angles to the longitudinal development of the sections.
The interminable gemmations and addition of segments to the ..."
3. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate by Richard Owen (1855)
"Such individual is due to the succession of incomplete gemmations ; the reproductive
process is completed, and the compound animal is resolved into the ..."
4. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"... because they have an ovipositor and eggs^but, for my part, I believe they are
without sex, and their so-called eggs are gemmations. ..."
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