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germinal
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Germinal is a 1993 French epic film based on the novel by Émile Zola . It was directed by Claude Berri , and stars Gérard Depardieu , Miou-Miou and Renaud . At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. The film had 6,161,776 admissions ...
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).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Germinal \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 .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: originative , seminal ]
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.
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.