GERM
\d͡ʒˈɜːm], \dʒˈɜːm], \dʒ_ˈɜː_m]\
Definitions of GERM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a small simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
By Princeton University
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a small simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To germinate.
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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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That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.
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The germ cells, collectively, as distinguished from the somatic cells, or soma. Germ is often used in place of germinal to form phrases; as, germ area, germ disc, germ membrane, germ nucleus, germ sac, etc.
By Oddity Software
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To germinate.
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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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That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.
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The germ cells, collectively, as distinguished from the somatic cells, or soma. is often used in place of germinal to form phrases; as, germ area, germ disc, germ membrane, germ nucleus, germ sac, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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The first principle of an organism; that from which anything springs; origin; first principle; any bacterial organism, especially one which may cause disease.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Rudimentary form of a living thing, whether a plant or animal: (hot.) the seed-bud of a plant: a shoot: that from which anything springs, the origin: a first principle.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A unicellular micro-organism; a seed; a developing egg.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The primitive rudiment of an animal or vegetable organism, of a particular part of such organism, or of anything (material or of the nature of a process) that may be developed.
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In botany, the ovary, the embryo, or the bud.
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A microbe, a bacterium.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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beta Lactams
- Cyclic amides formed aminocarboxy acids by the elimination water. They isomeric with lactims, which are enol forms of lactams. (From Dorland, 27th ed)