Look up: germ

1. Germ
   Germ is British slang for an irritating, unpleasant or contemptible person.
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2. Germ
   Germ is British slang for an irritating, unpleasant or contemptible person.
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3. germ
   [n] - a small simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
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4. Germ
   Germ: 1. A cell or group of cells (called a primordium) capable of developing into an organ, a part or an organism in its entirety. Eggs and sperm are germ cells. 2. A pathogenic a microorganism. A microbe capable of causing disease. The germ theory of disease held, correctly, that these minute bodi...
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5. Germ
   Germ noun [ French germe , from Latin germen , germinis , sprout, but, germ. Confer Germen , Germane .] 1. (Biol.) That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant ...
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6. Germ
   Germ intransitive verb To germinate. [ R.] J. Morley.
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7. Germ
   Germ noun (Biol.) The germ cells, collectively, as distinguished from the somatic cells, or soma . Germ is often used in place of germinal to form phrases; as, germ area, germ disc, germ membrane, germ nucleus, germ sac, etc.
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8. germ
   1. <biology> That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a foetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears. 'In the entire process in which a new being originates . Two distinct classes of action participate; namely, the act of gener...
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9. germ
   noun a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
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10. germ
    (jurm) a pathogenic microorganism. living substance capable of developing into an organ, part, or organism as a whole; a primordium. hair germ an ectodermal concentration in the basal layer of the embryonic epidermis, the precursor of a hair follicle and related structures. ...
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11. Germ
    • (n.) That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears. • (v. i.) To germinate. • (n.) That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty. &b...
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12. germ
    germ 1. A cell, or group of cells, capable of developing into an organ, a part, or an organism in its entirety. Eggs and sperms are considered to be germ cells. 2. A pathogenic microorganism or a microbe capable of causing disease. The germ theory of disease held that these minute bodies could cause disease which turned out to be verified. T...
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13. germ
    
    • anything that provides inspiration for later work
    • a small simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
    • a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
    
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14. germ
    Type: Term Pronunciation: jĕrm Definitions: 1. A microbe; a microorganism. 2. A primordium; the earliest trace of a structure within an embryo.
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15. 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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16. GERM
    That part of the seed from which plant grows.
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17. germ
    A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause infection and disease.
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18. Germ
    (mathematics) In mathematics, the notion of a `germ` of an object in/on a topological space captures the local properties of the object. In particular, the objects in question are mostly functions (or maps) and subsets. In specific implementations of this idea, the sets or maps in question wi...
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