germ
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French germe, from Latin germen (“bud, seed, embryo”). Doublet of germen.
Inflected forms:
form: germs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: germs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: germing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: germed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: germed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud, spore, or zygote.
pos: noun
gloss: The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud, spore, or zygote.
pos: noun
examples: surgical removal of germs of wisdom teeth
gloss: A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
pos: noun
examples: 'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'
gloss: The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the germ of civil liberty
Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth? - the dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.
gloss: An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
pos: noun
gloss: To germinate.
pos: verb
examples: Thus tempted, the lust to avenge me / Germed inly and grew.
gloss: To grow, as if parasitic.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: I’m addicted, want to germ inside your love
Related words: dysgerminoma
german
germane
germen
germinal
germinate
germination
germinative
germinoma
bacteria
microbe
parasite
virus
Derived words: antigerm
apical germ pore
degerm
epithelial germ
germband
germ cell
germ-free
germ history
germicidal
germicide
germ layer
germless
germlike
germline
germling
germogen
germophobe
germophobia
germophobic
germ-plasm
germ plasm
germ pore
germproof
germ-ridden
germ theory
germ theory of disease
germ tube
germule
germ warfare
germy
multigerm
pangermist
wheat germ
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رُشَيْم
roman: rušaym
lang: Belarusian
word: заро́дак
roman: zaródak
lang: Belarusian
word: эмбрыён
roman: embryjón
lang: Bulgarian
word: ембрио́н
roman: embrión
lang: Bulgarian
word: заро́диш
roman: zaródiš
lang: Burmese
word: မျိုး
roman: myui:
lang: Catalan
word: germen
lang: Czech
word: zárodek
lang: Dutch
word: kiem
lang: Esperanto
word: ĝermo
lang: Finnish
word: itiö
lang: French
word: germe
lang: Galician
word: xerme
lang: Georgian
word: ჩანასახი
roman: čanasaxi
lang: Georgian
word: ემბრიონი
roman: embrioni
lang: German
word: Keim
lang: Greek
word: μικρόβιο
roman: mikróvio
lang: Hindi
word: रोगाणु
roman: rogāṇu
lang: Hindi
word: कीटाणु
roman: kīṭāṇu
lang: Hungarian
word: csíra
lang: Indonesian
word: kuman
lang: Italian
word: germe
lang: Japanese
word: 胚芽
roman: haiga
lang: Khmer
word: ជីវាណូ
roman: ciivaanou
lang: Khmer
word: ពីជៈ
roman: piicĕəʼ
lang: Korean
word: 배아
roman: baea
lang: Portuguese
word: germe
lang: Romanian
word: microb
lang: Romanian
word: germen
lang: Russian
word: заро́дыш
roman: zaródyš
lang: Russian
word: зача́ток
roman: začátok
lang: Russian
word: эмбрио́н
roman: embrión
lang: Slovak
word: klíček
lang: Spanish
word: germen
lang: Swedish
word: mikrob
lang: Tagalog
word: binhay
lang: Ukrainian
word: заро́док
roman: zaródok
lang: Ukrainian
word: ембріо́н
roman: embrión
lang: Ukrainian
word: зача́ток
roman: začátok
lang: Vietnamese
word: mộng
lang: Vietnamese
word: mầm