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单词 gemma
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gemman.

Brit. /ˈdʒɛmə/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛmə/
Forms: Plural gemmæ.
Etymology: Latin: see gem n.1
1. (See quot. 1692) Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > ovum or ootid > yolk > tread
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cock treading1573
kenning1585
tread1593
cock's tread1647
gallature1650
treadle1658
cicatricula1664
strind1671
gemma1692
chalaza1704
segmentation cavity1888
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 68 The Gemma or Cicatricula of the Egg contain'd in the female Ovary.
2. Botany.
a. A leaf-bud as distinguished from a flower-bud.
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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [noun] > leaf-bud
gem1382
leaf bud1658
oculus1728
gemma1770
1770 C. Milne Bot. Dict. (at cited word) Mr. Ray was the first who gave the name of Gemma to the bud, which had formerly been denominated germen.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) III. xxix. 60 A state analogous to that of the larva in the insect begins in the plant when it..is evolved from the gemma.
1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. xv. 545 The bodies of the first class are known as leaf-buds in the Flowering Plants, and as gemmæ among the Cryptogamia.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 413/1.
b. In mosses, liverworts, etc.: a small cellular body which becomes detached from the mother-plant and originates a new one.
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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > parts of
moutha1398
fimbria1752
calyptra1753
veil1760
lid1776
apophysis1785
operculum1788
peristoma1792
peristome1799
peristomium1806
hair-point1818
vaginula1818
perigynium1821
vaginule1821
gemma1830
paraphyllium1832
tympanum1832
perigon1857
pseudopodium1861
commissure1863
ocrea1863
cap1864
chaeta1866
struma1866
membranulet1891
pyxis1900
pseudopod1914
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1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 325 In Jungermannia there is a third kind of reproductive matter, consisting of heaped clusters of little amorphous bodies, growing from the surface of the leaves, and called gemmæ.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §324 The Hepaticae produce cellular bulbels or gemmae.
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. i. 308 These plants are produced by spores and minute cellular nodules called gemmae or buds.
3. Zoology. A bud-like growth upon animals of low organization, which becomes detached and develops into a new individual.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > bud generating individual
gem1832
bud1836
gemmule1844
gemma1851
1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) viii. 213 Small gemmæ, covered with cilia, which are free organisms during the first period of their existence.
1855 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 2) iii. 56 The Alcyons..are reproduced..by gemmæ, which..are developed around the pre-existent polyps.

Compounds

gemma grass n. U.S. (see gamagrass n.).
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1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody (1891) iv. 47 The mesa is bare of everything for five hundred yards but gemma grasses.
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