'Germinal' definitions:
Definition of 'germinal'
From: WordNet
adjective
Containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal]
noun
Seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds
Definition of 'Germinal'
From: GCIDE
- Germinal \Ger"mi*nal\, a. [See Germ.]
- 1. Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Germinal layers (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes included.
- Germinal membrane. (Biol.) Same as Blastoderm.
- Germinal spot (Biol.), the nucleolus of the ovum.
- Germinal vesicle, (Biol.), the nucleus of the ovum of animals. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Germinal'
From: GCIDE
- Germinal \Ger`mi*nal"\, n. [F. See Germ .] The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See Vend['e]miaire. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'germinal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboriginal,
- atomic,
- basal,
- basic,
- central,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- corpuscular,
- creative,
- crucial,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- esemplastic,
- evanescent,
- fattening,
- fecund,
- fecundative,
- fertile,
- fertilizing,
- fetal,
- fructificative,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genetic,
- germinant,
- germinational,
- germinative,
- germiparous,
- granular,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- impalpable,
- imperceptible,
- imponderable,
- in embryo,
- in ovo,
- in the bud,
- inappreciable,
- indiscernible,
- infinitesimal,
- ingenious,
- inspired,
- intangible,
- inventive,
- invisible,
- larval,
- life-giving,
- microcosmic,
- microscopic,
- molecular,
- multiparous,
- notional,
- original,
- originative,
- pregnant,
- primal,
- primary,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primordial,
- pristine,
- procreant,
- procreative,
- productive,
- prolific,
- propagative,
- protogenic,
- radical,
- reproductive,
- richening,
- rudimentary,
- seminal,
- shaping,
- spermatic,
- spermatozoic,
- subatomic,
- teeming,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- ultramicroscopic,
- unseeable,
- visioned