Germinal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See {Germ}.]
     1. Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal
        vesicle.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  germinal
       adj : containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one
             discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: {originative},
              {seminal}]
       n : 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