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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, adjective [See {Germ}.]
1. Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.
2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Germinal \Ger'mi*nal"\, noun [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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
germinal
adjective: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: {originative}, {seminal}]
noun: seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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