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A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.

Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmæ; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmæ.

Of or pertaining to gems.

Having buds; reproducing by buds.

Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.

The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.

A process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation.

Same as Spermosphere.

Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

d sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.

Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.

Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.

Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.

See Gemmation.

A bud produced in generation by gemmation.

t colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides. Perrier.

he higher animals. Haeckel. True corms, composed of united personæ . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons. Encyc. Brit. Artificial, or Fictitious, person (Law), a corporation or body politic. blackstone. -- Natural person (Law), a…

icellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.

generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation.