GERMINAL - 9 definitions found
germinal adj 1: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal] n 1: seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) germinal adjective Etymology: French, from Latin germin-, germen — more at germ Date: 1808 1. a. being in the earliest stage of development b. creative, productive 2. of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a germ cell or early embryo • germinally adverb Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary germinal ˈdʒə:mɪnl adj. 1 relating to or of the nature of a germ or germs (see GERM 1). 2 in the earliest stage of development. 3 productive of new ideas. øøgerminally adv. [L germen germin- sprout: see GERM] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See Germ.] Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. 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. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Germinal \Ger`mi*nal"\, n. [F. See Germ .] The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See Vend['E]miaire. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 84 Moby Thesaurus words for "germinal": aboriginal, atomic, basal, basic, central, conceptive, conceptual, corpuscular, creative, crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, esemplastic, evanescent, fattening, fecund, fecundative, fertile, fertilizing, fetal, fructificative, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinant, germinational, germinative, germiparous, granular, ideational, ideative, imaginative, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, in embryo, in ovo, in the bud, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, ingenious, inspired, intangible, inventive, invisible, larval, life-giving, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, multiparous, notional, original, originative, pregnant, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, procreant, procreative, productive, prolific, propagative, protogenic, radical, reproductive, richening, rudimentary, seminal, shaping, spermatic, spermatozoic, subatomic, teeming, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unseeable, visioned |
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