germ English

Meaning germ meaning

What does germ mean?

Definitions in simple English

germ Noun

— A germ is a very small organism that makes other organisms sick, a virus, bacteria, or fungus.

— A germ is a part of an organism that can develop into a new one.

germ

— noun (= source) anything that provides inspiration for later work

— noun a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

— noun (= microbe) a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

Synonyms germ synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as germ?

germ English » English

microbe

seed

bacteria

virus

bacterium

embryo

sprout

bug

bacillus

pathogen

microorganism

bud

beginning

source

semen

germination

embryo bud

decay

young plant

worm

stimulus

stem bud

start

spore

sperm

sign

shoot

seedling

rudiment

plantule

pathogenic bacteria

mold

micro-organism

maggot

germinate

germinal bud

germ cell

gemmule

fungus

embryonic bud

egg

disease germ

conceptus

cell

causative organism

causative agent

causal organism

caterpillar

bud of a plant

beginnings

Topics germ topics

What do people use germ to talk about?

Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant

• What words refer to the seeds?
  seed acorn bean berry cone ear grain gourd kernel nut pinecone pod rosehip bran chaff cob corncob germ head of grain hull husk nutshell pod pit rind section seedcase shell skin stem stone whole(wheat)

Universe, creation Animal

Types of animals

• What words refer to types of animals?
  phylum class order family genus species chordate vertebrate invertebrate crustacean rodent insect arthropod mollusk echidna protozoa protozoan protozoon amebic amoeba bacteriophage cold-blooded warm-blooded multicellular single-celled unicellular microorganism germ virus viral purebred hybrid quadruped biped two-footed four-footed diurnal nocturnal beast brute vermin varmint albino

Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Small animals

• What words refer to one-celled animals (phylum Protozoa)?
  bacteria germ virus

Person Healthy

Cause of disease

• What things cause disease?
  infection contagion curse spirit psychosomatic bacteria virus germ chill exposure chemical imbalance genetic defect

Examples germ examples

How do I use germ in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

The program li was working on. It's germ weaponry.

A germ-warfare program?

I have no use for germ warfare.

Now Medardus felt that he, too, carried the germ of the plague.

She caught some awful kind of germ through going out on a picnic. and she was ill for months and months.

Have you ever been accidentally exposed to any kind of germ spray?

Something which, in layman's terms. so affected the insecticide that from a mildly virulent germ spray. it created deadly chemical reversal of the growth process.

Germ warfare!

An American thriller with the germ of a good, almost brilliant, idea, about a group of single-minded men who plan and execute a particularly daeing bank robbery.

Another hour, and they'd have had you. confessing to germ warfare in Laos.

It was the germ of squalor, of hopelessness of a loss of faith.

I'm a germ, a rare disease.

Some germ from Earth.

Is it possible this germ, or virus, could be airborne?

The program li was working on. It's germ weaponry. Banned by nearly every nation on Earth.

The germ of a crime, Bassick. A truly great crime.

It's a germ.

Take your germ-ridden hands off the chair!

M ILLS, GERM WARFARE RESEARCH.

You're the germ. The symptom. The sickness.

An unused one is relatively germ-free.

The program Li was working on, it's germ weaponry, banned by nearly every nation on earth.

A germ warfare program?

Groundwater is very pure and germ-free.

The germ-filled sponge goes into the mouth.

In ten hours a single typhoid germ can multiply into a million.

Is it possible that this germ or virus could be air-born?

The germ is visible under a microscope, but it is not like any bacilli I've ever known.

An unknown germ is being blown arround the world.

My theory is, that. the bat had previously acquired the vampire germ.

If not of killing the germ, at least of containing it, keeping it from spreading.

The blood feeds the germ, the vaccine keeps it isolated and prevents it from multiplying.

I wonder. Is it a germ in the air?

Now, this germ. This germ is.

News and current affairs

But the germ of such a debate exists, and it sounds very different from that which dominated the failed constitutional referendum campaign in France two years ago.

There seems to be the germ of a new economic theory in the work of the Reinharts and Rogoff, but it remains ill defined.