gem|mule

gem|mule
gem|mule «JEHM yool», noun.
1. Botany, Zoology. a small bud.
2. a budlike reproductive body in sponges.
3. Biology. one of the living units thought by Charles Darwin to be the bearers of the hereditary characteristics of animals and plants.
[< Latin gemmula (diminutive) < gemma bud]

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