- a bud.
- 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.
- gemmule (def. 2).
- a small asexual reproductive structure in liverworts, mosses, etc, that becomes detached from the parent and develops into a new individual
- zoology another name for gemmule (def. 1)