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GEMMATION

Dictionary entry overview: What does gemmation mean?

• GEMMATION (noun)
The noun GEMMATION has 1 sense:

1. asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual

Familiarity information: GEMMATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GEMMATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

gemmation; pullulation

Hypernyms ("gemmation" is a kind of...):

agamogenesis; asexual reproduction (reproduction without the fusion of gametes)

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