germ
noun
a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
germless
-
a word derived from
germ.
Example Sentences
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A sterile scent permeated the chapel as if to keep all of the people now occupying it in a germless fervor.
From The Verge ● Feb. 4, 2019
Marc Andreessen, the firm’s co-founder, fixed his gaze on Doshi as he disinfected his germless hands with a sanitizing wipe.
From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2015
Zoologists had succeeded in keeping fish, chickens, guinea pigs and monkeys alive under completely germless conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wish to be totally clean, germless, without bacteria, like the surface of the moon.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
I have spoken of the floating dust of the air, of the means of rendering it visible, and of the perfect immunity from putrefaction which accompanies the contact of germless infusions and moteless air.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
