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gemma
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gemma \Gem"ma\, n.; pl. Gemm[ae]. [L., a bud.]
(Bot.) A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.
(Biol.) A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.
Wiktionary
n. (label en botany) bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells.
WordNet
n. small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual
[also: gemmae (pl)]
Wikipedia
A gemma (plural gemmae) is a single cell, or a mass of cells, or a modified bud of tissue, that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual. This type of asexual reproduction is referred to as fragmentation. It is a means of asexual propagation in plants. These structures are commonly found in fungi, algae, liverworts and mosses, but also in some flowering plants such as pygmy sundews and some species of butterworts. Vascular plants have many other methods of asexual reproduction including Bulbils and Turions.
Gemma is a female name of Italian origin, meaning "precious stone." Its popularity peaked in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. It was the third most popular female name in 1984 in the UK.
Notable people with the name Gemma include:
- Gemma Arterton (born 1986), English actress
- Gemma Atkinson, English actress and model
- Gemma Beadsworth, Australian water polo player
- Gemma Bissix, English actress
- Gemma Bond, English ballet dancer
- Gemma Booth, English photographer
- Gemma Chan, British actress
- Gemma Craven, Irish actress
- Gemma di Manetto Donati, the wife of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri
- Gemma Doyle (politician), British Labour Party politician
- Gemma Frisius (1508–1555), Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker
- Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
- Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
- Gemma Jackson (born 1951), British production designer
- Gemma Jones, English actress
- Gemma Mengual (born 1977), Spanish synchronised swimmer
- Gemma Sanderson, Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
- Gemma Ward, Australian model
- Gemma Whelan, English actress and comedian
Fictional characters:
- Gemma, in the children's Hospital Radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
- Gemma Doyle, heroine of Libba Bray's novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing; see List of Gemma Doyle Trilogy characters
- Gemma Warren, heroine of the 1897 novel The Gadfly
- Gemma, in the first series of the Sky One supernatural TV series Hex
- Gemma, an Arduino compatible microcontroller designed by Limor Fried
- Gemma Teller Morrow, in the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy
- Gemma, the Silver Ranger in the television show Power Rangers: RPM
GEMMA is a magazine and a social group founded in 1976 whose mandate is to provide a "friendship and support group for disabled lesbians in England."
The organization was founded by members of lesbian organization Sappho and mixed organization Campaign for Homosexual Equality, including Elsa Beckett. Gemma's member newsletter was published in regular print, in braille as well as cassette format.
In her essay Unearthing Our Past: Engaging with Diversity at the Museum of London, Raminder Kaur describes a leaflet promoting the activities of Gemma, which is a part of the Museum of London collection, as "crucial to exploring the theme of multiple identities or difference within difference".
Gemma is a feminine given name.
Gemma may also refer to:
- Gemma (botany), an asexual reproductive structure in plants and fungi
- Gemma, the traditional name for the binary star Alpha Coronae Borealis in the constellation of Corona Borealis
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, a Dutch coastal tanker lost in 1951
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, a German cargo ship in service during 1928
- Gemma (organization), an English organization for disabled lesbians
- Gilt-Edged Market Makers Association (GEMMA) reference price, a price collated by the UK's Debt Management Office from mid-market closing prices submitted by each Gilt-Edged Market Maker for those gilts in which it makes markets (conventional gilts, index-linked gilts, or both, with the exception of rump gilts and STRIPS).
- Gas phase electrophoretic molecular mobility analysis, a chemical analysis technique.
Usage examples of "gemma".
The book contained forty-two poems by such writers as Gemma Files, Charlee Jacob, Mark McLaughlin, Peter Crowther, Bruce Boston, Tom Piccirilli and others, along with a Foreword by John Rose, an Introduction from Phyllis Gotlieb and an Afterword by James Morrow.
Chris Baggs, Clare Bainbridge, Paul Barlow, Francis Barnard, Lucinda Becker, Cynthia Behrman, Gemma Bentley, Alex Bernson, Marjorie Bloy, Nancy Booth, Nicola Bown, Trev Broughton, Arthur Burns, Jamie Byng, Rosemary Campbell, Roger Cline, Ken Collins, Betty Cortus, Eileen M.
Gemma knew Michael: He was in no mood for bickering, backbiting, or inter-Dante politics.
Besides this, gemmae may be formed on the protonema, on the leaves or at the apex, and some mosses have specialized shoots for their better protection or distribution.
Erect branches may arise from the protonema, and gemmae may be developed on it.
Gemma sitting on the couch beside this strange, doll-like woman with her heavy Puerto Rican accent, hearing her call Ianthe Apeiron a monster to her face, while the lady so accused placidly passed lemonade like a serving girl?
There were neckless little runts who would be pulverized by one modest hit from a Blades defenseman, refrigerator-sized brutes, and tall, sleek geeks Gemma could envision being blown over by the passing breeze created by a fast-skating teammate.
For always, after that simple marriage ceremony in Panama City when he and Gemma stood before the municipal juez in his cotton guayabera and took their unpretentious vows, Partridge nursed a conviction that simple ceremonies produced the better marriages andflamboyant, ritzier circuses were more likely to be followed by divorce.
Pat put on his flight shortcoat, stuck a portable voice-terminal in the pocket, and then stood and watched Gemma at the terminal.
The multitude of mazelike streets perplexed Gemma and she often got lost.
Arriving at home at dusk, all three of my chevaliers were clustered in the reception salon, with Gemma hovering over Ti-Philippe and pressing a cool, moist cloth over his right eye.
Ignoring the collective indrawn breath of my chevaliers and a faint squeak of astonishment from Gemma, he tossed the scroll on the table.
He was a blocky human with the thick muscles of a heavy planet native -- Chargon of Gemma was his birthplace.
He was a blocky human with the thick muscles of a heavy planet native -- Chargon of Gemma was his birthplace.
He left his partner chattering to thin air and courteously extended his arm to the Lady Gemma to support her down the steps and to the table.