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say it: JEM-uh
gemma is a noun meaning "small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual". It carries one recorded sense.
small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gemma come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.