Dictionary Entry
gemmule
gemmule is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.
- 2noun
One of the buds of mosses.
- 3noun
One of the reproductive spores of algae.
- 4noun
An ovule.
- 5noun
A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
- 6noun
One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis.
- 7noun
the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity
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