a micro-organism, esp one that causes disease
a small mass of cells capable of developing into an organism or one of its points
the embryo of a cereal grain that is usu separated from the starchy endosperm during milling
wheat germ
the rudimentary state from which something develops
the germ of an idea
germy adj
[Middle English via Old French from Latin germin-, germen seed, sprout, from gignere to beget]