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7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity
originBorrowed from French gemmule, from Latin gemmula (“small bud; small gem”), from gemma (“bud of a plant; gem, jewel; thing made of precious stones”) (further etymology uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth; to produce”), but see further at that entry) + -ula (feminine form of -ulus (diminutive suffix)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0