germ

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud, spore, or zygote.
2. The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud, spore, or zygote.
3. A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
4. The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
5. An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.

Verb

1. To germinate.
2. (slang) To grow, as if parasitic.

Konzepte

Keim

Krankheitserreger

Bakterie

Bazillus

Krankheitskeim

keimen

Mikroorganismus

Knospe

Bakterium

Knospe einer Pflanze

Mikrobe

🦠

Mikroorganismen

Pilz

🍄

Spross

Virus

Keimknospe

Keimung

Keimblatt

Erreger

Keimling

Synonyme

microbe

🦠

bacteria

seed

bacterium

virus

embryo

bug

🐛

bacillus

sprout

pathogen

microorganism

bud

beginning

source

germination

decay

embryo bud

semen

shoot

sign

sperm

spore

start

stimulus

worm

🪱

pathogenic bacteria

young plant

plantule

bud of a plant

causative organism

causal organism

disease germ

stem bud

embryonic bud

agent

germinal bud

animalcule

bacteriological

beginnings

caterpillar

🐛

causative agent

cell

conceptus

egg

🥚

fungus

gemmule

germ cell

germinate

maggot

micro-organism

mold

rudiment

seedling

🌱

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/d͡ʒɜːm/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Middle French germe, from Latin germen (“bud, seed, embryo”). Doublet of germen.