gemma
See also: Gemma
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin gemma (“bud on a plant”).
Noun
gemma (plural gemmae)
- (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).
- 1969, Rudolf Mathias Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America East of the Hundredth Meridian, Volume 1, Columbia University Press, page 527,
Derived terms
Translations
asexual reproductive structure
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Noun
gemma f (plural gemmes)
Further reading
- “gemma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Interlingua
Noun
gemma (plural gemmas)
Italian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin gemma.
Pronunciation
Noun
gemma f (plural gemme)
Verb
gemma
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. Two possibilities include:
- Proto-Indo-European *gembʰ- (“nail, tooth”)
- Proto-Italic *gen- (“to produce”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡem.ma/, [ˈɡɛmːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒem.ma/, [ˈd͡ʒɛmːä]
Noun
gemma f (genitive gemmae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gemma | gemmae |
Genitive | gemmae | gemmārum |
Dative | gemmae | gemmīs |
Accusative | gemmam | gemmās |
Ablative | gemmā | gemmīs |
Vocative | gemma | gemmae |
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: yema, xema
- Catalan: gemma
- English: gem
- French: gemme
- Galician: xema
- Italian: gemma
- Portuguese: gema
- Romanian: gemă
- Russian: гемма (gemma)
- Spanish: yema, gema
- → Proto-West Germanic: *gimmu (see there for further descendants)
References
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gemma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the trees are budding: gemmae proveniunt
- 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
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