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  • English Word Gemmiferous Definition Producing gems or buds
  • English Word Gemmiferous Definition multiplying by buds.
  • English Word Gemmification Definition The production of a bud or gem.
  • English Word Gemmiflorate Definition Having flowers like buds.
  • English Word Gemminess Definition The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.
  • English Word Gemming Definition of Gem
  • English Word Gemmipara Definition Alt. of Gemmipares
  • English Word Gemmipares Definition Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.
  • English Word Gemmiparity Definition Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.
  • English Word Gemmiparous Definition Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.
  • English Word Gemmosity Definition The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel.
  • English Word Gemmulation Definition See Gemmation.
  • English Word Gemmule Definition A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.
  • English Word Gemmule Definition One of the buds of mosses.
  • English Word Gemmule Definition One of the reproductive spores of algae.
  • English Word Gemmule Definition An ovule.
  • English Word Gemmule Definition A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
  • English Word Gemmule Definition One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis.
  • English Word Gemmuliferous Definition Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.
  • English Word Gemmy Definition Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem.
  • English Word Gemmy Definition Spruce; smart.
  • English Word Gemote Definition A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.
  • English Word Gems Definition The chamois.
  • English Word Gems-horn Definition An organ stop with conical tin pipes.
  • English Word Gemsbok Definition A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.
  • English Word Gemul Definition A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns.
  • English Word Gena Definition The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
  • English Word Gena Definition The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.
  • English Word Genappe Definition A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.
  • English Word Gendarme Definition One of a body of heavy cavalry.