germinal

IPA: dʒˈɝmʌnʌɫ

(historical) The seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, starting on the date of the vernal equinox (March 21 or 22) and ending on April 19 or 20.

Examples of "germinal" in Sentences

[266] This feeling for the tribal life may be called germinal public spirit.
Its tread is composed of several cells, and is now commonly called the germinal disc.
This yolk contains a germinal vesicle in which can be discovered a nucleus, called the germinal spot.
Sometimes it has been called the germinal disk, sometimes the germinal spot, and usually the germinative area.
But no sooner has one written the word germinal than one begins to experience the desire to peep ahead at the ending or, rather, to look in the beginnings for symptoms of the terminus.
This layer of cells is called the germinal membrane (or blastoderm); the homogeneous cells which compose its simple structure are called blastodermic cells; and the whole hollow sphere, the walls of which are made of the preceding, is called the blastula or blastosphere.
With this conviction I attempted, as far back as 1894, when the idea of germinal selection had not yet occurred to me, to make "harmonious adaptation" (coadaptation) more easily intelligible in some way or other, and so I was led to the idea, which was subsequently expounded in detail by Baldwin, and Lloyd Morgan, and also by Osborn, and Gulick as _Organic Selection_.