Present participle of gem; the act of adorning with gems or precious stones, or in biology, the process of reproducing asexually through buds.
From gem (verb) + -ing (present participle suffix). While gem as a noun comes from Latin gemma, the verb form developed in English to mean both 'to decorate with gems' and 'to reproduce by budding,' following biological terminology.
In biology, gemming describes how starfish can regrow lost arms and how some corals reproduce—tiny clones budding off the parent—making it one of nature's most fascinating reproductive strategies that humans discovered through close observation.
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