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Budding :: Budding (n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea..

Gemmiparous :: Gemmiparous (a.) Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1..

Gemmation :: Gemmation (n.) The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding..

Reproduce :: Reproduce (v. t.) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation..

Gemmulation :: Gemmulation (n.) See Gemmation.

Gemmiparity :: Gemmiparity (n.) Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.

Protophyte :: Protophyte (n.) Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division..

Asexual :: Asexual (a.) Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation..

Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.

Meride :: Meride (n.) A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides..

Cytogenesis :: Cytogenesis (n.) Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell..

Blastogenesis :: Blastogenesis (n.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

Fissigemmation :: Fissigemmation (n.) A process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation.

Gemmation :: Gemmation (n.) The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud..

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