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gemma

/jem-uh/US // ˈdʒɛm ə //UK // (ˈdʒɛmə) //

宝玛,吉玛,宝马

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gem·mae [jem-ee]. /ˈdʒɛm i/.

    • : a bud.
    • : Botany. a cell or cluster of cells, or a leaflike or budlike body, that separates from the parent plant to form a new organism, as in mosses and liverworts.

Examples

  • One day, he turned up with Gemma, whom he'd gotten from the pound.

  • On the other side were Clay Morrow and his wife, Gemma Teller, a couple for whom love has long been synonymous with doom.

  • Gemma has moved on with Nero, a pimp played by Jimmy Smits who calls himself “a companionator.”

  • The landowner and racehorse breeder and his artist wife, Gemma, are close friends of the Middleton family.

  • Gemma Hardy is the orphaned daughter of a Scottish woman and an Icelandic fisherman.

  • Gemma thinks she will be ugly, with great teeth and a red face like the Englishwomen in the Asino, but I do not believe it.

  • Orazio Lucis first saw Gemma like that, and he followed us home, and then found out who we were and asked questions about us.

  • The young man contrived to remain behind in the salotto for a moment and to keep Gemma with him.

  • It was always so easy to make Gemma angry, and lately she had been more capricious and difficult than ever.

  • Olive was out giving a lesson when it came, and Gemma turned it over, examining the post-mark and the writing.