gem | (noun) a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: jewel, precious stone |
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(noun) art highly prized for its beauty or perfection | Synonyms: treasure |
(noun) a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan | Synonyms: muffin |
(noun) a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: jewel |
(noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gemstone, stone |
gemfibrozil | (noun) medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood | Synonyms: Lopid |
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geminate | (noun) a doubled or long consonant | - |
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(verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
(verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
(verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
(verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
gemination | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: duplication |
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(noun) the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect) | - |
gemma | (noun) small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual | - |
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gemmation | (noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: pullulation |
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gemmed | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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gemmiferous | (adjective) bearing or reproducing by a gemma | - |
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gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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gempylid | (noun) snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide | - |
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gemsbok | (noun) large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | Synonyms: gemsbuck, Oryx gazella |
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gemsbuck | (noun) large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | Synonyms: gemsbok, Oryx gazella |
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gemstone | (noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gem, stone |
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