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Novel in the earliest stage of development
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germinal
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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 .
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Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola 's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart . Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of ...
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adj. containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: originative , 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.