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Gemmation   Listen
noun
Gemmation  n.  
1.
(Biol.) The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.
2.
(Bot.) The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud.





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... have a very peculiar method of gemmation. The lichen-thallus is composed of chains or groups of round chlorophyl-containing cells, called "gonidia," and masses of interwoven rows of elongated cells which constitute the hyphae. Under certain conditions single cells of the gonidia become surrounded ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various


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