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Germinal

Germinal Meaning & Definition
Germinal Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Germinal?

[n] seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds
[adj] containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Germinal: original | originative | seminal

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | Revolutionary calendar | Revolutionary calendar month

Germinal In Webster's Dictionary

\Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See {Germ}.] Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. {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.
\Ger`mi*nal"\, n. [F. See {Germ} .] The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See {Vend['E]miaire}.
\Ger"mi*nal\, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells.

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