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Embryonic
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germinal
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining or belonging to a germ. 2 (label en figuratively) Of or pertaining to something very small, as small as a germ; pertaining to the essence of something. 3 (label en figuratively) Highly influential, seminal.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Germinal (זשערמינאל, also transliterated as Zsherminal ) was a Yiddish -language anarchist journal in London edited by the German-born Rudolf Rocker . It appeared from 1900 to 1903, and then again from 1905 to 1908. In 1898, the Yiddish anarchist newspaper ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1808, from Modern Latin germinalis "in the germ," from Latin germen (genitive germinis ) "sprout, bud, sprig, offshoot" (see germ ) + -al (1).
Usage examples of germinal.
Most philanthropy starts out unquestioningly with the assumption that by modifying the individual for the better, it will thereby improve the germinal quality of the race.
A strip of the outer germinal layer, the ectoderm, thickened, folded into a groove, closed itself into a nerve canal, became a spinal column, became the brain.
Through the medium of his drawing hand he was beginning to catch the tail of some germinal ideas.
I'd make sure there were regular retrospectives of his germinal stories.