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Germinal adj.

Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.

(Biol.) Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells.

Germinal layers (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes included.

Germinal membrane. (Biol.) Same as Blastoderm.

Germinal spot (Biol.), the nucleolus of the ovum.

Germinal vesicle, (Biol.), the nucleus of the ovum of animals.

noun

Germinal n. The seventh month of the French republican calendar (1792 1806). It began March 21 and ended April 19. See Vendemiaire.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... not. For all this, and very much more than all this, which may be passed over as unnecessary or improper, nothing like the book had, for positive critical quality, and still more for germinal influence, been seen by its generation, and nothing of the same quality and influence has been seen for more than a technical generation since. It would of course be uncritical in the last degree to take the ...

— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury

... by the Constituent Assembly, of compensating the Catholic clergy for the confiscation of their property, was not applicable to the Protestant Church. On a consideration of the administrative advantages of a church paid by the state, Bonaparte decided that the law of the 18th Germinal, year X., should be drawn up, regulating the nomination of pastors and consistories after the manner of the interior government of the Protestant Church. The principle which, in this respect, equalized the Protestant and Catholic modes ...

— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt

... individualists. The Novel in its treatment of personality began to teach that the stone thrown into the water makes circles to the uttermost bounds of the lake; that the little rift within the lute makes the whole music mute; that we are all members of the one body. This germinal principle was at root a profoundly true and noble one; it serves to distinguish modern fiction philosophically from all that is earlier, and it led the late Sidney Lanier, in the well-known book on this subject, to base the entire ...

— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton

... solid gold, or of cherub figures, and that the latter style of setting was continued in the early pictures of the enthroned Madonna. The effect was to idealize the subject, and carry it into the region of the heavenly. This was the germinal idea which grew ...

— The Madonna in Art • Estelle M. Hurll

... a learned and scientific dissertation on contagious diseases of insects, and a number of germinal diseases, and experimental and successful attempts to kill them. The Professor showed that nausea is contagious and may be transferred by diseased worms, and that therefore the spread of disease in worms would considerably lessen the danger to plants and fruits from their inroads. These ...

— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various

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