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germinal
English
Adjective
germinal (comparative more germinal, superlative most germinal)
- Relating to spring
- Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
- (botany) Relating to a plant ovary
- (figuratively) Serving as a point of origin; formative.
- My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera.
- (figuratively) Highly influential; seminal. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Usage notes
In sense “highly influential”, primarily used as a consciously feminist alternative to male seminal (germ (“egg”) vs. semen).
Synonyms
- (relating to spring): vernal
- (relating to seed): seminal
- (influential): seminal
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- germinal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- germinal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- maligner, malinger
Catalan
Adjective
germinal (masculine and feminine plural germinals)
- germinal
Noun
germinal m (plural germinals)
- (historical) Germinal (the month).
French
Etymology
Taken from Latin germen, germinis (“sprout, bud”) +? -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.mi.nal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Homophones: germinale, germinales, germinals
Adjective
germinal (feminine singular germinale, masculine plural germinaux, feminine plural germinales)
- germinal
Noun
germinal m (plural germinals)
- (historical) Germinal (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
See also
- (French Republican Calendar months) mois du calendrier républicain; vendémiaire, brumaire, frimaire, nivôse, pluviôse, ventôse, germinal, floréal, prairial, messidor, thermidor, fructidor (Category: fr:Months)
Further reading
- “germinal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- malingre
Romanian
Etymology
From French germinal.
Noun
germinal m (uncountable)
- Germinal
Declension
Spanish
Adjective
germinal (plural germinales)
- germinal
Noun
germinal m (plural germinales)
- Germinal
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meroblast
English
Etymology
mero- +? -blast
Noun
meroblast (plural meroblasts)
- (biology) An ovum (egg) that has both germinal and nutritive parts
Anagrams
- blastomer, stormable
meroblast From the web:
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