| Germ | |
| 1. n. (slang) a German person. | |
| 2. n. (biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | |
| 3. n. A pathogenic microorganism. | |
| 4. n. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. | |
| 5. n. (figurative) The origin of an idea or project. | |
| the germ of civil liberty | |
| 6. n. (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood. | |
| 7. v. To germinate. | |
| 8. v. (slang) To grow, as if parasitic. | |
