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germinal, a.|ˈdʒɜːmɪnəl|
[ad. mod.L. germinālis, f. L. germin-, germen: see germ n.]
Of or belonging to a germ or to germs; of the nature of a germ.
germinal cell, germinal disc = germ cell, disc (see germ n. 6). germinal layer, each of the three layers of cells into which the blastoderm divides. germinal matter, a term applied by Beale to vitally active matter (see quot. 1870). germinal membrane = blastoderm. germinal pole, ‘the part or pole of the egg where lies the germinal spot’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885). germinal spot, the nucleolus of the permanent ovum, situated in the germinal vesicle. germinal vesicle, the nucleus of the permanent ovum of animals.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. 172 Relatively taken..the germinal power of every seed might be generalized under the relation of Identity. 1836,1859Germinal membrane [see blastoderm]. 1845G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 118 Capillary vessels are developed by the stellated union of a certain set of blastodermic or germinal cells. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca iv. 51 On one side of the yolk is a pellucid spot, termed the germinal vesicle, having a spot or nucleus on its surface. 1861Beale Protoplasm i. iii. (1874) 93 In all living beings the matter upon which existence depends is the germinal matter (Bioplasm). 1863Huxley Man's Place Nat. ii. 61 A mass of viscid nutritive matter, the ‘yelk’, within which is enclosed..the ‘germinal vesicle’. In this, lastly, lies a more solid rounded body, termed the ‘germinal spot’. 1870Beale Protoplasm (ed. 2) 36 It [living matter] alone possesses the power of growth and of producing matter like itself out of materials differing from it materially in composition, properties, and powers. I therefore called it germinal or living matter, to distinguish it from the formed material, which is in all cases destitute of these properties. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 36 The three layers into which the germinal membrane divides itself in the embryo. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. xi. 306 The plague-corpuscles..might also be germinal in the worm, and still baffle the microscope. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 35 The so-called germinal layers, which make up the embryonic body. 1880Huxley Crayfish iv. 206 The protoplasmic substance of the yelk..constituting a germinal layer. Ibid. 209 A whitish patch..termed the germinal disk. 1888J. T. Gulick in Linn. Soc. Jrnl. XX. 237 Germinal Segregation is caused by the propagation of the species by means of seeds or germs any one of which, when developed, forms a community.
b. transf. Of non-material things: That is in the germ or in the earliest stage of development.
1808W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. VI. 360 In our second volume..was noticed the germinal pamphlet, of which this quarto volume may be considered as the matured expansion. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) II. vi. xvi. 220 In what order do these germinal ideas arise? 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. II. 367 It is needless..to point out the defects of this system. All we have to note here is its logical development of Condillac's germinal error. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets i. 10 The artistic sentiment, indeed, exists in Homer..but it is germinal, not organized and expanded as it will be. 1874Sidgwick Meth. Ethics iii. 427 The germinal form of morality. a1878Lewes Study Psychol. (1879) 40 A forecasting tendency, germinal in animals and savages, conspicuous in the civilized man. 1885Clodd Myths & Dr. ii. i. 147 Indications of germinal ideas about an after-life are present in the contents of tumuli.
c. humorously. Rudimentary, undeveloped.
1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxii, Job was a small fellow, about five, with a germinal nose.
d. fig. Capable of development; productive of new ideas, influences, etc.; = seminal a. 4 a.
1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. I. iii. 136 The European country houses and chateaux that were so alive and germinal, mentally, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, stand now mere empty shells. 1935J. R. Moore Defoe & Mod. Econ. Theory ii. 5 He was one of the rare germinal minds in literature. 1936C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love iv. i. 157 The Romance of the Rose is one of the most ‘successful’ books, in the vulgar sense, that have ever been written... As a germinal book during these centuries [sc. the later Middle Ages] it ranks second to none except the Bible and the Consolation of Philosophy.
Hence ˈgerminally adv.
1869A. Harwood tr. de Pressensé's Early Years Chr. ii. iii. 203 The old economy germinally contains the new. |