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English
Etymology
From Latin gemmeus. See gem.
Adjective
gemmeous (comparative more gemmeous, superlative most gemmeous)
- (archaic) Resembling or relating to gems.
1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:They were not the Europeans alone, who were ſtruck with its [the honeysucker’s] great beauty; the natives of America, to whom it was ſo familiar, were affected with its gemmeous appearance, and beſtowed on it titles expreſſive of its reſplendent colors.
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