Crossword-Solution: GEMMULE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gemmule | n. | A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons. |
| Gemmule | n. | One of the buds of mosses. |
| Gemmule | n. | One of the reproductive spores of algae. |
| Gemmule | n. | An ovule. |
| Gemmule | n. | A bud produced in generation by gemmation. |
| Gemmule | n. | 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. |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with GEMMULE (5)
Therefore I fully believe that each cell does ACTUALLY throw off an atom or gemmule of its contents;--but whether or not, this hypothesis serves as a useful connecting link for various grand classes of physiological facts, which at present stand absolutely isolated.
The "gemmule" of a Halimeda contained several articulations united, ready to burst their envelope, and become attached to some basis.
Will you turn two or three times in your mind this question: what I called "pangenesis" means that each cell throws off an atom of its contents or a gemmule, and that these aggregated form the true ovule or bud, etc.? Now I want to know whether I could not invent a better word.
The assumed elective affinity of each gemmule for that particular cell which precedes it in due order of development is supported by many analogies.
But, as we sometimes see half an anther or a small portion of a filament becoming petali-form, or parts or mere stripes of the calyx assuming the colour and texture of the corolla, it is probable that with petals the gemmules of each cell are not aggregated together into a compound gemmule, but are free and separate.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1954).