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gemma
English
Etymology
From Latin gemma (“bud on a plant”).
Noun
gemma (plural gemmae)
- (botany) A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells.
- 1969, Rudolf Mathias Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America East of the Hundredth Meridian, Volume 1, Columbia University Press, page 527,
- I know of no other genera with such intramarginal formation of true gemmae.
- 1990, Anthony John Edwin Smith, The Liverworts of Britain and Ireland, page 2,
- Gemmae are frequently longer than wide or of irregular shape.
- According to Degenkolbe, gemmae-bearing leaves are always different in form from normal leaves.
- 2005, R. N. Chopra, Biology of Bryophytes, page 32,
- In Marchantia polymorpha, high temperature promotes germination of gemmae (Dacknowski, 1907), and heat absorbed by the gemmae accelerates their germination (Fitting, 1942).
- 1969, Rudolf Mathias Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America East of the Hundredth Meridian, Volume 1, Columbia University Press, page 527,
Derived terms
- extragemmal
- gemmoid
Translations
Anagrams
- Megam
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin gemma.
Noun
gemma f (plural gemmes)
- gem, jewel
Further reading
- “gemma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Interlingua
Noun
gemma (plural gemmas)
- gem
Italian
Etymology
From Latin gemma.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d???m.ma/
Noun
gemma f (plural gemme)
- bud
- gem, jewel
Verb
gemma
- third-person singular present indicative of gemmare
- second-person singular imperative of gemmare
Anagrams
- gamme
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. Two possibilities include:
- Proto-Indo-European *gemb?- (“nail, tooth”)
- Proto-Italic *gen- (“to produce”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /??em.ma/, [???m?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?d??em.ma/, [?d???m??]
Noun
gemma f (genitive gemmae); first declension
- A bud or eye of a plant.
- A gem, gemstone, jewel, precious stone.
- A thing made of precious stones.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
- gemm?rius
- gemm?tus
- gemmeus
- gemmifer
- gemm?
Descendants
- Asturian: yema, xema
- Catalan: gemma
- English: gem
- French: gemme
- Galician: xema
- Italian: gemma
- Portuguese: gema
- Romanian: gem?
- Russian: ????? (gemma)
- Spanish: yema, gema
- ? Cebuano: yema
- ? West Germanic: *gimmu (see there for further descendants)
References
- gemma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gemma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gemma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- gemma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- gemma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gemma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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gemman
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?m?n
Noun
gemman (plural gemmen)
- (archaic) gentleman
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