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germicide
English
Etymology
germ +? -cide
Noun
germicide (plural germicides)
- An agent that kills pathogenic organisms; a disinfectant.
Related terms
- germ
- germicidal
Translations
French
Noun
germicide m (plural germicides)
- germicide
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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
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