germ
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The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops
The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud, spore, or zygote.
A pathogen
A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
- 'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'
The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
- the germ of civil liberty
- Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
- What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth? - the dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.
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An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
To germinate.
- Thus tempted, the lust to avenge me / Germed inly and grew.
To grow, as if parasitic.
- I’m addicted, want to germ inside your love
a German person.
The neighborhood
- neighborgerman
- neighborgermane
- neighborgermen
- neighborgerminate
- neighborgermination
- neighborbacteria
- neighbormicrobe
- neighborparasite
- neighborvirus
Derived
antigerm, apical germ pore, degerm, dysgerminoma, epithelial germ, germband, germ cell, germ-free, germ history, germicidal, germicide, germinal, germination, germinative, germinoma, germ layer, germless, germlike, germline, germling, germogen, germophobe, germophobia, germophobic, germ-plasm, germ plasm, germ pore, germproof, germ-ridden, germ theory, germ theory of disease, germ tube, germule, germ warfare, germy, multigerm, pangermist, wheat germ
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for germ. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA