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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Jutes :: "Jutes (n. pl.) Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century..
Junker :: "Junker (n.) A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia..
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..
Jungermannia :: "Jungermannia (n.) A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceae..
Germane :: Germane (a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant..
Entoblast :: Entoblast (n.) The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.
Indo-germanic :: Indo-Germanic (a.) Same as Aryan, and Indo-European..
Zoocyst :: Zoocyst (n.) A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of which becomes a germ..
Minnesinger :: Minnesinger (n.) A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses..
Boor :: Boor (n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer..
Germinant :: Germinant (a.) Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds.
Particulate :: Particulate (a.) Referring to, or produced by, particles, such as dust, minute germs, etc..
Palsgrave :: Palsgrave (n.) A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany..
Cicatricle :: Cicatricle (n.) The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.
Electorate :: Electorate (n.) The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire..
Fecundity :: Fecundity (n.) The power of germinating; as in seeds.
Germ Plasm :: Germ plasm () See Plasmogen, and Idioplasm..
Plantule :: Plantule (n.) The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
Germans :: Germans (pl. ) of Germa.
Life :: Life (n.) The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms..
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