meaning of germ
1. 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.
2. That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.
3. To germinate.
4. See Plasmogen, and Idioplasm.
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