germen
Americannoun
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germens,
plural
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germina
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of germen
From Latin, dating back to 1595–1605; see origin at germ
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The flowers are insignificant in appearance; the germen becomes a three-celled, globular pod, covered with slender spines, and contains three beautifully-polished, oblong seeds, of a black and silver-grey colour.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
The species attack the flowers and anthers of composite and polygonaceous plants, the leaves, culms, and germen of grasses, &c., and are popularly known as “smuts.”
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
The stamina are six, with one stile, growing from the germen, which stands up in three brownish segments, resembling a cup.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden
The younger the fruit of the carica, the more milk it yields: it is even found in the germen scarcely fecundated.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
Mr. Berkeley found no difficulty, and had the stem impregnated as well as the germen.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man!
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man! and Shakespeare's judgment on the worth of existence that we hear in Lear's agonised cry, 'No, no, no life!'?
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful men!
From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce
And it has been thus with the harder-coated germens of the Wealth of Nations.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ungrateful man....
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
The germina of resurrection are concealed in extinct bodies, as in the blood of men; the ashes of roses will again revive into roses, though smaller and paler than if they had been planted.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
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