gemmule (English, noun)
expansion: gemmule (plural gemmules)
Senses:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of gemma (“an asexual reproductive structure, as found in animals such as hydra (genus Hydra) and plants such as liverworts (division Marchantiophyta), consisting of a cluster of cells from which a new individual can develop”)
tags: archaic
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of gemma (“an asexual reproductive structure, as found in animals such as hydra (genus Hydra) and plants such as liverworts (division Marchantiophyta), consisting of a cluster of cells from which a new individual can develop”)
A small gemma or bud of dormant embryonic cells produced by some freshwater sponges (phylum Porifera) that develops into a new sponge.
tags: archaic
specifically
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In the obsolete theory of pangenesis propounded by the English scientist Charles Darwin (1809–1882): a hypothetical particle once thought to be the basis of heredity.
tags: historical
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of plumule (“the first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons”).
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Synonym of dendritic spine (“a small membranous protrusion from the dendrite of a neuron that typically receives input from a single axon at the synapse”).
Forms:
form: gemmules
tags: plural