gemmeous

English

Etymology

From Latin gemmeus. See gem.

Adjective

gemmeous (comparative more gemmeous, superlative most gemmeous)

  1. Resembling or relating to gems.
    • 1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:
      They were not the Europeans alone, who were struck with its [the honeysucker] great beauty; the natives of America, to whom it was so familiar, were affected with its gemmeous appearance, and bestowed on it titles expressive of its resplendent colors .

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gemmeous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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