Germinal
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See {Germ}.]
1. Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal
vesicle.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as
distinguished from the somatic cells.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{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.
[1913 Webster]
from
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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