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germ

Colloquial term for a micro-organism that causes disease, such as certain bacteria and viruses. Formerly, it was also used to mean something capable of developing into a complete organism (such as a fertilized egg, or the embryo of a seed).

VTXT: Contributor added the following 072006, but not currently in database..

See also germ line.



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In this sense the Boeotian poetry may be taken to have its germ in maxims similar to our English
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
The upshot of all these reasonings was, that his Highness the Prince Stadtholder of Holland would feel infinitely obliged to the magistracy of the Hague if they simplified for him the government of the Seven Provinces by destroying even the least germ of conspiracy against his authority.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
If there be one saying truer than another, it is this: great griefs contain within themselves the germ of consolation.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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