Gemmulation (n.) See Gemmation.
Gemmule (n.) A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.
Gemmule (n.) One of the buds of mosses.
Gemmule (n.) One of the reproductive spores of algae.
Gemmule (n.) An ovule.
Gemmule (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
Gemmule (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis.
Gemmuliferous (a.) Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.
Gemmy (n.) Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem.
Gemmy (n.) Spruce; smart.
Gemote (v. t.) A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.
Gems (n.) The chamois.
Gemsbok (n.) A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.
Gems-horn (n.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes.
Gemul (n.) A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns.
-gen () A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.
-gen () A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.
Gena () The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
Gena () The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.
Genappe (n.) A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.
Gendarmes (pl. ) of Gendarme
Gens d'armes (pl. ) of Gendarme
Gendarme (n.) One of a body of heavy cavalry.
Gendarme (n.) An armed policeman in France.
Gendarmery (n.) The body of gendarmes.
Gender (n.) Kind; sort.
Gender (n.) Sex, male or female.
Gender (n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
Gendered (imp. & p. p.) of Gender
Gendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gender
Gender (n.) To beget; to engender.
Gender (v. i.) To copulate; to breed.
Genderless (a.) Having no gender.
Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.
Genealogic (a.) Genealogical.
Genealogical (a.) Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order.
Genealogist (n.) One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.
Genealogize (v. i.) To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.
Genealogies (pl. ) of Genealogy
Genealogy (n.) An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
Genealogy (n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.
Genearch (n.) The chief of a family or tribe.
Genera (n. pl.) See Genus.
Generability (n.) Capability of being generated.
Generable (a.) Capable of being generated or produced.
General (a.) Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.
General (a.) Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion.
General (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression.
General (a.) Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom.
General (a.) Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire.
General (a.) As a whole; in gross; for the most part.
General (a.) Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.
General (a.) The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.
General (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.
General (a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.
General (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.
General (a.) The public; the people; the vulgar.
Generalia (n. pl.) Generalities; general terms.
Generalissimo (a.) The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.
Generalities (pl. ) of Generality
Generality (n.) The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
Generality (n.) That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase.
Generality (n.) The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind.
Generalizable (a.) Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.
Generalization (n.) The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.
Generalization (n.) A general inference.
Generalized (imp. & p. p.) of Generalize
Generalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generalize
Generalize (v. t.) To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
Generalize (v. t.) To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.
Generalize (v. t.) To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
Generalize (v. i.) To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.
Generalized (a.) Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
Generalizer (n.) One who takes general or comprehensive views.
Generally (adv.) In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
Generally (adv.) In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively.
Generally (adv.) Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.
Generalness (n.) The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.
Generalship (n.) The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
Generalship (n.) Military skill in a general officer or commander.
Generalship (n.) Fig.: Leadership; management.
Generalty (n.) Generality.
Generant (a.) Generative; producing
Generant (a.) acting as a generant.
Generant (n.) That which generates.
Generant (n.) A generatrix.
Generated (imp. & p. p.) of Generate
Generating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generate
Generate (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
Generate (v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.
Generate (v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.
Generate (v. t.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
Generation (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
Generation (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.
Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
Generation (n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
Generation (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
Generative (a.) Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.