Definition of germ

"germ" in the noun sense

1. source, seed, germ

anything that provides inspiration for later work

2. germ

a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

3. microbe, bug, germ

a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium the term is not in technical use

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Quotations for germ

Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds. [ T. D. English ]

Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juice intended for the germ of love. [ Landor ]

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

The sin of pride is the sin of sins, in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one. [ Trench ]

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose [ James A. Garfield ]

In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams - they are the world in which he lives. [ Bettina von Arnim ]

Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven. But music, like all our gifts, is given us in the germ. It is for us to unfold and develop it by instruction and cultivation. [ Charles W. Landon ]

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]

germ in Scrabble®

The word germ is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters germ:

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The 78 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In germ

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germ in Words With Friends™

The word germ is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters germ:

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The 83 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In germ

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Words within the letters of germ

2 letter words in germ (3 words)

3 letter words in germ (2 words)

4 letter words in germ (1 word)

germ + 1 blank (5 words)

Word Growth involving germ

Shorter words in germ

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Longer words containing germ

degerm degermed

degerm degerming

degerm degerms

endangerment

fingermark fingermarks

fluogermanate fluogermanates

germane germanely

germane germaneness

germane nongermane

germaniferous

germanification germanifications

germanified

germanifier germanifiers

germanifies

germanify germanifying

germanisation germanisations

germanise germanised

germanise germaniser germanisers

germanise germanises

germanising

germanium germaniums

germanization germanizations

germanize germanized

germanize germanizer germanizers

germanize germanizes

germanizing

germanophobe germanophobes

germanophobia

germanophobic germanophobics

germaphobe germaphobes

germaphobia

germaphobic germaphobics

germfree

germicidal nongermicidal

germicide germicides

germier

germiest

germinal nongerminal

germinal subgerminal

germinate germinated regerminated

germinate germinated ungerminated

germinate germinates regerminates

germinate regerminate regerminated

germinate regerminate regerminates

germinating nongerminating

germinating regerminating

germination germinations nongerminations

germination germinations regerminations

germination nongermination nongerminations

germination regermination regerminations

germinoma dysgerminoma dysgerminomas

germinoma germinomas dysgerminomas

germline

germophobe germophobes

germophobia

germophobic germophobics

germproof

germs degerms

germy

jiggermast jiggermasts

nongerminative

regerminative regerminatively

triggerman

triggermen

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