germen
Americannoun
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germens,
plural
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germina
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of germen
From Latin, dating back to 1595–1605; see origin at germ
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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 germen becomes a round woody capsule, compressed at the ends like an orange, divided into twelve cells, each containing a flat oblong seed.
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
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
The germen becomes an oblong, bottle-shaped fruit, divided into six cells, containing flat, oblong seeds.
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 globular part contains the pistil, which consists merely of a germen and stigma, together with the surrounding stamens.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
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
It was as if the treasure of Nature's germens were tumbling all together.
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by George MacDonald
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man!
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
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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