gemmulation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

gemmule +‎ -ation

Noun[edit]

gemmulation (countable and uncountable, plural gemmulations)

  1. (biology) The production of gemmules; reproduction via gemmules
    • 1978, Patricia R. Bergquist, Sponges:
      The actual formation of gemmule's by fresh-water sponges is so clearly an adaptation to seasonal climatic changes, that at first it was reasonable to believe that seasonal alternation itself induced the gemmulation.

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