Adjective : germinal ideas. From Dictionary.com.
This yolk contains a germinal vesicle in which can be discovered a nucleus, called the germinal spot. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
In this germinal period, socialism had its great. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Oöblast: the primitive germinal nucleus of an egg. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The plays of children are the germinal leaves of all later life. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
They seem to constitute a species of simple primitive germinal drama. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
The germinal cell then grows forth into the forms typical for the particular. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
A bioplast, they tell us, is a germinal point in germinal matter or bioplasm. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
Blastoderm: the germinal membrane from which the organs of the embryo are formed. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
How did these germinal forms of courage, prudence, industriousness, etc, first come into existence?. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
In the writings of the Greek and Roman philosophers are found the germinal concepts of geological truths. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
The object of the successive worlds is the creation of millions of centres of consciousness in the germinal state. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
If the living germinal organism has its paternity in a dog, it will remain a dog in spite of food and environments. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference
In their forthcoming book on kinematic synthesis, R.S. Hartenberg and J. Denavit will trace the germinal ideas of J.cob. From Wordnik.com. [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference
As early as 1791 Poli had seen the germinal vesicle in the eggs of molluscs, but the first adequate account was given by Purkinje. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Marxian thought is but one of the germinal, distinguishing markers in that vein, but it is arguably the most prominent and decisive as well. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
This something is nature's secret, -- it is akin to the life-giving principle which is contained in the germinal fluid, and in the hen's egg. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
From non-germinal love hadn't the thought been of that stranger, his father, and then from the father had it not been of the stranger from Laos?. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
The conditions which surround the individual would affect its body, but it is not easy to believe that they would affect the germinal substance. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference
All the fulness and delight of this germinal spring-time she owed to the lord and lover who was waiting for her across the shimmering, beckoning sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
At each stage the germinal soul represents the totality, the net outcome of its existences, as in each generation of a plant the seed may be said to do. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
The virus's particular value lay in its ability to transfer very large amounts of DNA into both the ordinary body cells and the germinal cells of higher animals. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
It can hardly be that they were, in the first instance, germinal vesicles, which, in course of time, became so modified as to assume the appearance of pollen-grains. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
A germinal mass is only made up of germinal points -- those considered as the least of any given whole -- however infinitesimal they may be in theoretical statement. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
Of course, not all who have sustained such loss felt the same about the issue that was the germinal cause of the loss prior to it nor do they feel the same afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [THE HORRIBLE SMELL OF PUTRESCENCE] Reference
Even if this were true, little would be gained, for it would still remain unknown how the germinal miniature originated to be just what it was conceived and assumed to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
It cannot at present be stated what precise circumstances induce the one mass to form mother-cells and pollen-grains, and the other to develop an embryo sac and germinal vesicles. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Did the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime, and the subsequent holding of competitive elections in which many rival Iraqi Shiite parties took part, have any germinal influence on the astonishing events in Iran?. From Wordnik.com. [Wait 20 Years. Erupt.] Reference
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