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English
Etymology
From gemmule + -ation.
Noun
gemmulation (countable and uncountable, plural gemmulations)
- (biology) The production of gemmules; reproduction via gemmules
1978, Patricia R. Bergquist, Sponges:The actual formation of gemmule's by fresh-water sponges is so clearly an adaptation to seasonal climatic changes, that at first it was reasonable to believe that seasonal alternation itself induced the gemmulation.
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