The lichens have a very peculiar method of gemmation. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
Stravadium has very minute stipules, the habit and gemmation is that of. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Machinery Hall has illustrated, from its earliest days, the process of development by gemmation. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
Therefore in many of such lower organisms such a congeries of ancestral gemmules must exist in every part of their bodies, since in them every part is capable of reproducing by gemmation. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
That such a complete collection of gemmules is aggregated in each ovum and spermatozoon in most animals, and in each part capable of reproducing by gemmation (budding) in the lowest animals and in plants. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
I follow those naturalists who look at all such cases as forms of gemmation; and a multitude of organisms have this power or traces of this power at all ages from the germ to maturity. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
If organs of generation might, at first sight, seem superfluous in creatures propagating their kind by gemmation and spontaneous fission, equivocal generation is surely still less required to explain the origin of beings so richly provided with the ordinary and recognized modes of propagation. "-- pp. 31, 32. From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'] Reference
Through gemmation, differentiation, segmentation, evolution, or whatever other technical expressions we may use for division, multiplication, budding, increase, etc., each cell became a hundred, a thousand, a million. From Wordnik.com. [The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour] Reference
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