Definition of germ

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Germ (n.) 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..

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Emboitement :: Emboitement (n.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another..
Germanized :: Germanized (imp. & p. p.) of Germaniz.
Aryan :: Aryan (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic..
Meroblastic :: Meroblastic (a.) Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic..
Electrum :: Electrum (n.) German-silver plate. See German silver, under German..
Kreutzer :: Kreutzer (n.) A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin..
Burgomaster :: Burgomaster (n.) A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster..
Spiranthy :: Spirant (n.) A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-208..
Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens..
Water Germander :: Water germander () A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
Reiter :: Reiter (n.) A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Regermination :: Regermination (n.) A germinating again or anew.
Sauerkraut :: Sauerkraut (n.) Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish..
Sterlet :: Sterilize (v. t.) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms..
Egg :: Egg (n.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell..
Fraunhofer Lines :: Fraunhofer lines () The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist..
Schenkbeer :: Schenkbeer (n.) A mild German beer.
Vegetate :: Vegetate (v. i.) To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate..
Nascent :: Nascent (a.) Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ..
Germinal :: Germinal (n.) The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendEmiaire.
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