
1) Antibiotic target 2) Antiseptic target 3) Bacillus 4) Bacterium 5) Basis 6) Basis of an idea 7) Beginning of an idea 8) Beginning of anger management 9) Birth of a notion 10) Bud or seed 11) Bug that might make you ill 12) Cause of a cold 13) Cause of the common cold 14) Cold cause 15) Cold starter
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1) Beginning 2) Bud 3) Bug 4) Microbe 5) Plan 6) Seed 7) Spore
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- 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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[mathematics] == Applications == The key word in the applications of germs is locality: all local properties of a function at a point can be studied analyzing its germ. They are a generalization of Taylor series, and indeed the Taylor series of a germ (of a differentiable function) is defined: you only need local information to compute deri...
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• (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. • (n.) The germ cells, collectively, as disting...
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Microorganism that can produce disease.
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A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause infection and disease.
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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 generation by which the germ is produced; and the act o...
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(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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Germ intransitive verb To germinate. [ R.]
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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 or flower, and the like; the earliest form under w...
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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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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 bodies can cause disease. 3. The figurative source or ...
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Germ is British slang for an irritating, unpleasant or contemptible person.
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n] - a small simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
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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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noun a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
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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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That part of the seed from which plant grows.
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Grain embryo; stem and roots sprout from the germ; 2% of grain.
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