Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to leaf- buds; of the nature of or resembling leaf-buds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmæ; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to, or resembling,
gems orgemmae .
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A fpecies of calyx, or rather of inflorefcence, from a common, chaffy, gemmaceous receptacle: or, confining of many chaffy fcales, ranged along a (talk flender as a thread, which is the com - mon receptacle. —
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