gemmation

[Lat. gemmatus=(1) bearing gems, (2) bearing buds, from gemma =a gem, a bud: Fr.gemmation. 1. Botany: (1) The act of budding; spec if. the production of buds in the axils of the floral leaves, the former developing into new flowers or inflorescences. This is seen occasionally in Scabiosa and Dipsacus. (2) The manner in which young leaves are folded up in a bud before it opens; vernation. †(3) The time when buds come forth. 2. Zool .: Generation by the development of buds, which in some species, as Cheroma, grows out of the forepart of the body, and in others, as Vorticella, from the hind part near the stem, or from the stem itself, from which the young animal soon detaches itself. ( Owe ( Owen .) Nicholson considers that the simplest form of gemmation is seen in the gendaru a *gěm-o-nỹ, s. [Lat. Gemonicæ [scalœ]=the Sad Steps (cf. the Bridge of Sighs), situated on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks, to be thrown into the river.] Pain, torment. "Anguish through every member flies And all those inward gemonies Whereby frail flesh in torture dies." Oldham: To the Memory of Mr. C. Morwent , xxxiii. ge-mō te, s. [A.S.gemót.] A meeting; the court of a hundred. [MEET, MOOT, MOTE.] gěmş-bok, gems-boc, s. [Ger. gemsbock=the male of the chamois: gemse =chamois, and bock = buck.] Zool.: An antelope, Oryx gazella , called by Pallas Antilope oryx , of a heavy stout build, about five feet long, three feet two inches high, with straight horns from two to two and a half feet long. It is of a rusty brown color, variegated with black and wounded to hunters, and at times holding even the lion at bay. It inhabits the karroos of Southern limb. Another form of it is when a foraminifer, consisting of a little sphere of sarcode, develops a second one like the first, then a third one like the second, till quite a group of these little globes has been formed, after which the whole are surrounded by a complex shell. Another kind of it is seen in the Flustra, in which a single polypide, by developing a series of buds which remain in contact with the parent stem, finally makes the complex sea mat, which the unobservant mistake for an algal. This is called continuous gemmation. When, as is the case of the fresh-water Hydra, the new beings developed from buds become disconnected from their parents, and set up a separate existence, the phenomenon is called discontinuous gemmation. Africa. Pennant called it the Egyptian Antelope, but it is not found in the Nile valley. "And the gemsbok and eland unhunted recline By the skirts of grey forests o'erhung with wild vine." Thos. Pringle: Afar in the Desert. IMG:content-0391.png:[blocks in formation] 2. An organ-stop, 8, 4, or 2 feet in length, the pipes of which, generally of metal, are taper-shaped, being only about one-third the size at the top that the body of the parent till that parent dies, this is termed internal gemmation. It occurs in some polyzoa. ( Nicholson.)