Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Reproducing by buds or gemmae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing buds or gems.
- Producing young by a process of internal gemmation, without sexual intercourse, as the wingless forms of aphids; geneagenetic. See gemmation, geneagenesis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See
gemmation , 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology That
reproduces by means ofbuds (gemmae ).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin gemma, bud; see gemma + –parous.]
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Examples
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I. Burnett found that many were in reality of the ordinary gemmiparous form, such as those composing the early summer broods.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
mollusque commented on the word gemmiparous
Reproducing by budding, as do some polyps such as hydra.
January 20, 2008