Plural form of gemmipara; organisms or creatures that reproduce through budding or gemmate reproduction.
From gemmipara (singular) + -es (plural suffix). Following Latin and biological naming conventions, the plural adds -es to Latin-derived terms ending in -a.
The scientific terminology of reproduction reveals how 18th and 19th-century naturalists were trying to categorize the wild diversity of life they discovered—gemmipares represented an entire category of reproductive strategy fundamentally different from sexual reproduction.
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