Definitions for germ

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Spelling: [jurm]
IPA: /dʒɜrm/

Germ is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in germ (egmr).

Definitions for germ

noun

  1. a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
  2. a bud, offshoot, or seed.
  3. the rudiment of a living organism; an embryo in its early stages.
  4. the initial stage in development or evolution, as a germ cell or ancestral form.
  5. something that serves as a source or initial stage for subsequent development:

adjective

  1. Pathology. of, relating to, or caused by disease-producing germs.

Origin of germ

1400-50; late Middle English Middle French germe Latin germen shoot, sprout, by dissimilation from *genmen, equivalent to gen- (see genitor,

Examples for germ

There, in the family of Adam, is the germ of the rule in the tribe,--the state.

The germ of the novel was an article in The Guardian highlighting the 50 to 60 bodies pulled from the Thames every year.

Yet she did not know that she was crushing out the germ which might have grown in his heart.

I am positive the germ count in the dugout alone could be classified as an occupational hazard.

This germ is always in the blood of members of the same family.

It implies a pre-existing something, inwrapped as a germ in its environment.

He, accordingly, constructed a very ingenious apparatus to enable him to accomplish this trapping of this "germ dust" in the air.

In that instant was planted the second germ of unhappiness in Hetty's bosom.

And despite years of speculation, nobody has proved Assad has any germ warfare capability at all.

Until Melching's organization started its three-year training program, no one knew the basics of germ theory—or its link to HIV.

Word Value for germ
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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