Definition of Germ

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Definition of Germ

Germ

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.

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

To germinate.

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.

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Germ Quotations

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
James Madison

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John Steinbeck

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
Emma Goldman

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
David Wilkerson

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.
Christian Lous Lange

Germ Translations

germ in Dutch is microbe
germ in Finnish is itu
germ in French is microbg, germe, microbe, semence
germ in German is Keim, keimen
germ in Italian is germe, microbo
germ in Norwegian is spire, bakterie
germ in Portuguese is germe
germ in Spanish is germen
germ in Swedish is brodd, bakterie, grodd

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