"Germ" is a word in ENGLISH
That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a
fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under
which an organism appears.
That from which anything springs; origin; first principle;
as, the germ of civil liberty.
To germinate.
Emotion often outwits intelligence, while intuition renders life surprisingly fluent and enjoyable. ("Le ciel c'est l'autre")
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An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.
Read the complete definitionGerm. In European marl-time law. A document furnished by the builder of a vessel, containing a register of her admeasurement, …
Read the complete definitionA doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs …
Read the complete definitionBelg. and Germ. Bottomry, (q. v
Read the complete definitionA bud; a germ of a plant.
Read the complete definitionA kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals …
Read the complete definitionThe heart of the seed; the embryo or germ.
Read the complete definitionA form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See …
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.
Read the complete definitionThe gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed …
Read the complete definitionRelating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the \"ectental line\" or line …
Read the complete definitionA simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
Read the complete definitionThe hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living …
Read the complete definitionThe germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
Read the complete definitionThe inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.
Read the complete definitionThe theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power …
Read the complete definitionThat theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but …
Read the complete definitionThe act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders …
Read the complete definitionA method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual …
Read the complete definitionAny substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said …
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