germinal
pronunciation
How to pronounce germinal in British English:
UK ['dʒɜ:mɪnəl]
How to pronounce germinal in American English:
US ['dʒɜmənəl]
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- Adjective:
- containing seeds of later development
Word Origin
- germinal (adj.)
- "in the early stages of development," 1808, from Modern Latin germinalis "in the germ," from Latin germen (genitive germinis) "a sprout, bud, sprig, offshoot" (see germ).
Example
- 1. Efficacy : qingshu dampness , water gas edema , germinal kiyonobu .
- 2. Chongqing beibei fu germinal cold enamel factory .
- 3. Many small lymphocytes are destroyed and germinal centres depleted .
- 4. A germinal force in re-establishing industry .
- 5. His germinal selection theory is pregnant with novelty and dialectic ideas .