gemma

From Latin gemma (“bud on a plant”).

gemma (plural gemmae)

1. (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).

• extragemmal
• gemmoid

• Megam

From Latin gemma.

gemma f (plural gemmes)

1. gem, jewel

• “gemma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

gemma (plural gemmas)

1. gem

From Latin gemma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛm.ma/

gemma f (plural gemme)

1. bud
2. gem, jewel

gemma

1. third-person singular present indicative of gemmare
2. second-person singular imperative of gemmare

• gamme

Two possibilities include:

• Proto-Indo-European *gembʰ- (“nail, tooth”)
• Proto-Italic *gen- (“to produce”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡem.ma/, [ˈɡɛm.ma]

gemma f (genitive gemmae); first declension

1. A bud or eye of a plant.
2. A jewel.
3. A thing made of precious stones.

First declension.

• gemmārius
• gemmātus
• gemmeus
• gemmifer
• gemmō

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the trees are budding: gemmae proveniunt
    
• 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