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Germinal
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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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