Usually means: Seed or basis of development.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. germen: Merriam-Webster
  2. germen: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Germen, germen: Wordnik
  4. germen: Wiktionary
  5. germen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. germen: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Germen, germen: Dictionary.com
  8. Germen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. germen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Germen, germen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. germen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. germen: FreeDictionary.org
  13. germen: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (germen)

▸ noun:  (biology) The basic form of an organism; the seed or germ.

Similar:
germ plasm, germoplasm, germ-plasm, germiparity, genome, protomorph, progenitor, bioplasm, proto-organism, histogen, more...

Opposite:
non-German, nonnative, foreign, alien

Adjectives:
latin, inferior, roundish, horrid, abortive, oval

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Similar:
germ plasm, germoplasm, germ-plasm, germiparity, genome, protomorph, progenitor, bioplasm, proto-organism, histogen, more...

Opposite:
non-German, nonnative, foreign, alien

Adjectives:
latin, inferior, roundish, horrid, abortive, oval



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