Gemara

The Gemara (also Gemora) ('גמרא' - from gamar: Aramaic "[to] study") is the part of the Talmud that contains rabbinical commentaries and analysis of its predecessor, the Mishnah. After this core text was finalized by Rabbi Judah the Prince (c. 200 AD), it was studied exhaustively by generation after generation of rabbis in Babylonia and the Land of Israel. Their discussions were written down in the series of books that became the Gemara, which when combined with the Mishnah completes the Talmud.
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v. gemmate, bud, put forth buds

(n.)
The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).
  

Noun
1. the second part of the Talmud consisting primarily of commentary on the Mishna
(hypernym) sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text
(part-holonym) Talmud