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(1):

(n.) That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.

(2):

(v. i.) To germinate.

(3):

(n.) That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.

(4):

(n.) The germ cells, collectively, as distinguished from the somatic cells, or soma. Germ is often used in place of germinal to form phrases; as, germ area, germ disc, germ membrane, germ nucleus, germ sac, etc.