germinative
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More and more, as that initiating episode of what is sometimes called postmodernism recedes into history, it looks to be one of 20th century art’s finest, most germinative hours.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
These two arteries now give off at each side, behind, at right angles, four or five branches, and these pass from the embryonic body to the germinative area, they are called omphalo-mesenteric or vitelline arteries.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
We may now disregard both the outer ovolemma and the greater part of the vesicle, and concentrate our attention on the germinative area and the four-layered embryonic disk.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
It then becomes inert matter, and the germinative cells alone of all its parts continue its life under certain conditions.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
This is done by the veins, which pass first from the germinative area, and afterwards from the yelk-sac, to the farther end of the heart.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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