gemmation
IPA: gˈɛmˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (biology) asexual reproduction via gemmae
- (botany) arrangement of buds on the stalk
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Examples of "gemmation" in Sentences
- The lichens have a very peculiar method of gemmation.
- Stravadium has very minute stipules, the habit and gemmation is that of
- Machinery Hall has illustrated, from its earliest days, the process of development by gemmation.
- This brood is again wingless, and it proceeds at once to bud out several generations more, by internal gemmation, as long as the warm weather lasts.
- In addition to these buds containing germinal elements alone, there is another which illustrates the process of "gemmation" -- i.e. the direct out-growth of a fully formed offspring.]
- Therefore in many of such lower organisms such a congeries of ancestral gemmules must exist in every part of their bodies, since in them every part is capable of reproducing by gemmation.
- That such a complete collection of gemmules is aggregated in each ovum and spermatozoon in most animals, and in each part capable of reproducing by gemmation (budding) in the lowest animals and in plants.
- We have reason, from comparative anatomy and ontogeny, to believe that it multiplied by sexual generation, not merely asexually (by cleavage, gemmation, and spores), as was no doubt the case with the earlier ancestors.
- Successive births do not mean transmigration in the common sense of that word, but only the self-propagation of [226] Karma: the perpetual multiplying of certain conditions by a kind of ghostly gemmation, -- if I may borrow a biological term.
- Originally, in the earlier ancestral types, reproduction was effected by fission or gemmation (simple division or budding), without any necessity for conjugation with another individual of the species; and reproduction by gemmation corresponds to the processes of detumescence, to the ejaculation of the spermatozoa by the male.
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