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germ
English
Etymology
From Middle French germe, from Latin germen (“bud, seed, embryo”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d????m/
- (General American) enPR: jûrm, IPA(key): /d???m/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Noun
germ (plural germs)
- (biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
- A pathogenic microorganism.
- The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
- (figuratively) The origin of an idea or project.
- the germ of civil liberty
- (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
germ (third-person singular simple present germs, present participle germing, simple past and past participle germed)
- To germinate.
- 1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy
- Thus tempted, the lust to avenge me / Germed inly and grew.
- 1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy
- (slang) To grow, as if parasitic.
- 2011, Black Eyed Peas, Just Can't Get Enough
- I’m addicted, want to germ inside your love
- 2011, Black Eyed Peas, Just Can't Get Enough
See also
- bacteria
- microbe
- parasite
- virus
Further reading
- germ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- germ in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *garmáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *g?armás, from Proto-Indo-European *g??or-mó-s. Cognate with Persian ???? (garm) and English warm.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??m
Adjective
germ (comparative germtir, superlative germtirîn)
- warm
Derived terms
- germahî
Zazaki
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *garmáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *g?armás, from Proto-Indo-European *g??or-mó-s. Cognate with Persian ???? (garm) and English warm.
Adjective
germ
- warm
Derived terms
- germey
- germin
- germ?n
germ From the web:
- what german
- what germanic tribes invaded rome
- what germs look like
- what german shepherds eat
- what germanic tribes invaded england
- what german state is berlin in
seedling
English
Etymology
seed +? -ling
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?dl??/
Noun
seedling (plural seedlings)
- (botany) A young plant grown from seed.
- Any young plant, especially:
- one grown in a nursery for transplanting.
- a tree smaller than a sapling.
Synonyms
- chit
Translations
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
seedling From the web:
- what seedling is this
- what seedlings to plant now
- what seedlings look like grass
- what seedlings have red stems
- what seedlings can i plant now
- what seedling means
- what seedlings to start indoors
- what seedlings should be pinched back
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