Definition of germ

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Germ (n.) That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty..

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Spermist :: Spermist (n.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body..
Immunity :: Immunity (a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy..
March :: March (v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France..
Frow :: Frow (n.) A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman..
Spark :: Spark (n.) That which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle..
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..
Couch :: Couch (v. t.) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt..
Archchamberlain :: Archchamberlain (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England..
Germinated :: Germinated (imp. & p. p.) of Germinat.
Jungermanniae :: Jungermanniae (pl. ) of Jungermanni.
Disk :: Disk (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc..
Germ Plasm :: Germ plasm () See Plasmogen, and Idioplasm..
Jutes :: "Jutes (n. pl.) Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century..
Germanic :: Germanic (n.) Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy..
Sporocyst :: Sporocyst (n.) An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia..
Mesam/boid :: Mesam/boid (n.) One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation..
Bundesrath :: Bundesrath (n.) The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.
Schneiderian :: Schneiderian (a.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century..
Alemannic :: Alemannic (a.) Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes..
Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..
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