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gemlike

adj

Etymology

From gem + -like.

  1. derived from gemma — “a swelling bud; jewel, gem”
  2. derived from gemme — “gem”
  3. inherited from *gimmu✻ — “gem”
  4. inherited from ġimm
  5. inherited from gemme
  6. suffixed as gemlike — “gem + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a gem

    Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact

    • His stuff was gemlike.
    • In his later years, Jackson published a series of twenty-one short, gemlike papers in the Lancet under the title Neurological Fragments.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA