germ

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French germe, from Latin germen (“bud, seed, embryo”). Doublet of germen. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɜːm/ (General American) enPR: jûrm, IPA(key): /d͡ʒɝm/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m === Noun === germ (plural germs) (biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud, spore, or zygote. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. (biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud. Coordinate term: vesicle Derived terms: germectomy A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus. (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project. (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Tok Pisin: jem ==== Translations ==== === Verb === germ (third-person singular simple present germs, present participle germing, simple past and past participle germed) To germinate. (slang) To grow, as if parasitic. ==== See also ==== bacteria microbe parasite virus ==== Further reading ==== “germ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “germ”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Northern Kurdish == === Etymology === From Proto-Iranian *garmáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰarmás, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mó-s. Cognate with Persian گرم (garm) and English warm. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛɾm === Adjective === germ (comparative germtir, superlative germtirîn) warm ==== Derived terms ==== germahî == Zazaki == === Etymology === From Proto-Iranian *garmáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰarmás, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mó-s. Cognate with Persian گرم (garm) and English warm. === Adjective === germ warm ==== Derived terms ==== germey germin germın