Gemmuliferous
(Gem`mu*lif"er*ous) a. [Gemmule + -ferous.] Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.
Gemmy
(Gem"my) a. [From Gem, n.]
1. Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem.
The gemmy bridle glittered free.
Tennyson. 2. Spruce; smart. [Colloq. Eng.]
Gemote
(Ge*mote") n. [As. gemt an assembly. See Meet, v. t.] (AS. Hist.) A meeting; — used in
combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.
Gems
(Gems) n. [G.] (Zoöl.) The chamois.
Gemsbok
(Gems"bok) n. [D.; akin to G. gemsbock the male or buck of the chamois; gemse chamois,
goat of the Alps + bock buck.] (Zoöl.) A South African antelope having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.
Gems-horn
(Gems"-horn`) n. [G., prop., chamois horn.] (Mus.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes.
Gemul
(Ge*mul") n. (Zoöl.) A small South American deer with simple forked horns. [Written also guemul.]
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gen
(-gen) [(1) From Gr. -gen-, from the same root as ge`nos race, stock (2) From Gr. suffix -genh`s
born. Cf. F. -gène.]
1. A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen,
halogen.
2. A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.
Gena
(||Ge"na) [L., the cheek.] (Zoöl.) (a) The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a
bird. (b) The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.
Genappe
(||Ge*nappe") n. [From Genappe, in Belgium.] A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness,
used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc. Simmonds.
Gendarme
(||Gen`darme") n.; pl. Gendarmes or Gens d'armes. [F.]
1. (Mil.) One of a body of heavy cavalry. [Obs.] [France]
2. An armed policeman in France. Thackeray.
