Germinal

Word GERMINAL
Character 8
Hyphenation ger mi nal
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Germinal"

What do we mean by germinal?

Of, relating to, or having the nature of a germ cell. adjective

Of, relating to, or occurring in the earliest stage of development. adjective

The seventh month of the French revolutionary calendar. It commenced (in 1794) March 21st and ended April 19th. noun

Pertaining to or constituting a germ; of the nature of a germ or of germination; germinative: as, germinal; vesicles; germinal ideas or principles.

Pertaining or belonging to a germ. adjective

Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells. adjective

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. adjective

Same as Blastoderm. adjective

The nucleolus of the ovum. adjective

, the nucleus of the ovum of animals. adjective

Pertaining or belonging to a germ. adjective

Of or pertaining to something very small, as small as a germ; pertaining to the essence of something. adjective

Containing seeds of later development adjective

Seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds noun

Relating to spring

Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.

Relating to a plant ovary

Serving as a point of origin; formative.

Highly influential; seminal.

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The word "germinal" in example sentences

But no sooner has one written the word germinal than one begins to experience the desire to peep ahead at the ending or, rather, to look in the beginnings for symptoms of the terminus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This yolk contains a germinal vesicle in which can be discovered a nucleus, called the germinal spot. ❋ B.G. Jefferis (N/A)

With this conviction I attempted, as far back as 1894, when the idea of germinal selection had not yet occurred to me, to make "harmonious adaptation" (coadaptation) more easily intelligible in some way or other, and so I was led to the idea, which was subsequently expounded in detail by Baldwin, and Lloyd Morgan, and also by Osborn, and Gulick as _Organic Selection_. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)

[266] This feeling for the tribal life may be called germinal public spirit. ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

This layer of cells is called the germinal membrane (or blastoderm); the homogeneous cells which compose its simple structure are called blastodermic cells; and the whole hollow sphere, the walls of which are made of the preceding, is called the blastula or blastosphere. ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

Its tread is composed of several cells, and is now commonly called the germinal disc. ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

Sometimes it has been called the germinal disk, sometimes the germinal spot, and usually the germinative area. ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

Gene-expression profiling has been used to define 3 molecular subtypes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), termed germinal center B-cell-like (GCB) DLBCL, activated B-cell-like (ABC) DLBCL, and primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBL). ❋ Unknown (2008)

He has claimed as his turf "our soul history, the germinal material, vast and brooding, that is always left out of more orthodox (all of them) books about America" (Jim Harrison, on Blood Orchid). ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing, the brilliant and iconoclastic Charles Bowden continues the quest he first set out on in Blood Orchid (1995) and Blues for Cannibals (2002) to explore, as Jim Harrison says "our soul history, the germinal material, vast and brooding, that is always left out of more orthodox - all of them - books about America." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mute has engaged a veritable bank of issues ahead of other far better resourced producers, publishing germinal texts on education, the knowledge economy, regeneration, intellectual property, web 2.0, immaterial labour, music, film and urbanism. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A series of flying contraptions ensures that anyone here with even the most germinal of mothering instincts and there are probably 23,000 of us, give or take a few dads and brothers forgets to breathe as Bieber is repeatedly lofted high into the air and dangled over the crowd like bait. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ever since Robert Flaherty staged scenes with Inuit hunters for his germinal 1922 documentary, "Nanook of the North," documentary filmmakers have wrestled with their moral relationships with their subjects. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Christopher Hitchens asks what I think is a necessary question for anyone honestly seeking to understand the effects of recent U.S. policy in the Middle East: “Did the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime, and the subsequent holding of competitive elections in which many rival Iraqi Shiite parties took part, have any germinal influence on the astonishing events in Iran?” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Suspicions between the Islamists—once the military's most reliable partner among Egypt's germinal new political parties—have been growing over the past several months. ❋ Matt Bradley (2011)

IT WAS HE who encouraged her to write the best-selling Sex and the Single Girl — a frank primer on living well alone that Ms. Scanlon clearly regards as one of the germinal feminist “texts” of the century. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Marxian thought is but one of the germinal, distinguishing markers in that vein, but it is arguably the most prominent and decisive as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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