gemmiparousadj.
/dʒɛˈmɪpərəs/ a. Of organisms: Producing new individuals by gemmation.
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gemmiparous1793
gemmiferous1804
agamic1816
zoogenic1842
agamogenetic1858
autogenetic1859
parthenogenetic1860
parthenogenous1869
unsexual1873
monogenous1874
monogonic1876
monogonous1876
arrenotokous1877
gemmative1877
thelytokous1877
parthenogenic1878
heteroblastic1888
blastogenic1889
isogamous1889
paedogenetic1889
monogenic1890
anisogamous1891
monogenetic1900
paedogamous1912
apomictic1913
cytogamous1918
ectogenetic1923
pseudogamous1932
agamospermous1933
impaternate1934
subsexual1937
mictic1950
somatogamous1950
zygogenetic1950
1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. I2 Gemmiparous..producing gems or buds.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. xi. 322 The species..which he calls Planaria tentaculata..is oviparous in the spring and gemmiparous in the autumn.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals x. 612 The generative blastema..from which the generative organs of the gemmiparous zooid have been developed.
b. Of or pertaining to the process of gemmation.
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1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 16 There is also an internal gemmiparous or suboviparous generation.
1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses iii. 10 The production of the plant from the threads is rather gemmiparous than embryonic.
Derivatives
geˈmmiparously adv.
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1867 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. II. 93 The resulting segments are so many gemmiparously-produced individuals.
gemmiˈparity n. the attribute of being gemmiparous.
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1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 117/1 An instance of ‘internal gemmiparity’ rather than the production of true ova.
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