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Gemma

noun

(pl. gemmae)

Small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual.

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"Gemma" Quotes from Famous Books

... Negroes; a beastly living people, without God, law, religion, or government, and so scorched by the heat of the sun, that in many places they curse it when it rises. Of the people about Lybia interior, Gemma Phrysius thus writes: Libia interior is large and desolate, containing many horrible wildernesses, replenished with various kinds of monstrous beasts and serpents. To the south of Mauritania or Barbary is Getulia, a rough and savage region, inhabited by a wild and wandering people. After these ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr

... probably at the wish of his friends, Dante married Gemma Donati. She bore him seven children in seven years, and there is nothing to show that she was not a true and faithful wife to him, though it is quite probable, from his absolute silence respecting her, that the deepest grounds of sympathy hardly ...

— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 of 8 • Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

... Lege constans in divina, Coli gemma preciosa, Margarita fulgida, Sponsa Christi gloriosa, ...

— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock

Words linked to "Gemma" : reproductive structure