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• The reverend doctor will enlighten us with a lecture on the germ theory.From the entry reverend
• Remove everyday germs and neutralise cooking odours with our antibacterial handwash.From the entry handwash
• Germ plasm and idioplasm are forms of plasmogen.From the entry plasmogen
• Animal dung can carry parasites and other germs that can make livestock sick.2014, Emma Carlson Berne, Dung Beetles: Stronger than Ten Men! (Animal Superpowers), New York, N.Y.: PowerKiDS Press, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry dung beetle
• Use a closed fist or assume the Dracula sneeze pose to temper germ transmission.2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, Ten Speed Press…. From the entry Dracula sneeze
• The book’s initial germ was a rackety shootout not far from Mr.2007 January 10, Patricia Leigh Brown, “An Author’s Vision of the Mean Streets of Mumbai”, in New York Times. From the entry rackety
• You weren't working on germ warfare five years ago." "Non-lethal," she cries.2004, Sandra Newman, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done: A Novel, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry I believe you, thousands wouldn't
• You get chicken spooge down in there, the germs check in, and they don't check out.2003, Alton Brown, “Fit to Be Tied”, in Good Eats. From the entry spooge
• Other germ cell tumours are either solid or semicystic, and often malignant.2003, C. J. Mieny, Principles of Surgical Patient, page 983. From the entry semicystic
• It is a germ that attacks the mucous membranes of nasal passages or throat.1941 February 17, Edgar Cayce, “Common Cold”, in Gladys Davis Turner, Mae Gimbert St. Clair, compilers, Individual Reference File of…. From the entry flushiness
• Is it not possible that the soul germ might be discovered?1922, Edgar Wallace, Captain of Souls, Small, Maynard and Company, page 206. From the entry super-supernatural
• It is also a good guess that her family has more than its share of germ diseases.1916 December 13, W. A. Evans, “Germs and Germs”, How to Keep Well, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 75, number 298, page 8. From the entry germophobiac
• Raise your hand if you adore germs.2015, S. Thomas Valentine, Questions of the Soul: Sermons from the 2014 Festival of Young Preachers, Chalice Press, →ISBN. From the entry raise one's hand
• And then, bada bing bada boom, our germs are reunited.2014, Tina Calabria, Surviving Me: An Outsider’s Story, page 123. From the entry bada bing bada boom
• They can be divided into dermoids (only an epithelial layer present) and teratoids (all three germ layers present).2005, Richard A. Bordow, Andrew L. Ries, Timothy A. Morris, Manual of Clinical Problems in Pulmonary Medicine, 6th edition, page 610. From the entry teratoid
• Germ cellless encodes a cell type-specific nuclear pore-associated protein and functions early in the germ-cell specification pathway of Drosophila.2003, Kwang W. Jeon, International Review of Cytology: A Survey of Cell Biology, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry cellless
• Towelettes and waterless hand-washes are great items to carry with you for preventing the spread of infectious germs.2003, Bill Goodrich, Tom McCormick, Nursing Home Ministry: Where Hidden Treasures Are Found, Avon Lake, Oh.: God Cares Ministry, →ISBN…. From the entry hand-wash
• The nondegerming system grinds corn, preferably white dent corn, into meal with little, if any, separation of germ.2000, Karel Kulp, Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology, Revised and Expanded, page 48. From the entry preferably
• Sometimes, because of the invasion of germs into the heart part, the brown or tawny falseheart with irregular figure appears.1995, Shuming Wu, Wood Anatomy Research. From the entry falseheart
• I have seen the germ bomb dropped by the American imperialists over Kwantien County and have examined specimens of infected insects.1952 [1952 March 27], Ma Shih-chun, quotee, “CRIMINAL ACT AGAINST MANKIND”, in Stop U.S. Germ Warfare!, number 3, Peking: The Chinese…. From the entry Kwantien
• More specifically, mastitis is an inflammation of the udder usually caused by germs which enter through the teat canal.1941, W.L. Boyd, W.A. Billings, W.G. Andberg, University of Minnesota Agricultural Extension Service, “Mastitis or Garget in Cattle”, in…. From the entry garget
• It is just as well that man has always had at least a germ of faith in his omnipotence and omnicognizance.1938, Henry A[lexander] Murray, “Introduction”, in Harvard Psychological Clinic, Explorations in Personality: A Clinical and Experimental…. From the entry omnicognizance
• "And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?" "Why, surely!" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry plasm
• In some so-called germ diseases its influence is most beneficial.1911, J. Thornton Sibley, “Psychoprophylaxis”, in Eclectic Review, volume 14, page 324. From the entry psychoprophylaxis
• The idea that our nose hairs, known medically as vibrissae, might offer protection against infectious germs goes back more than a century.2021 July 30, Richard Klasco, “Is Nose Hair Essential to Fighting Off Colds and Other Viral Illnesses?”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry nose hair
• I don't know if any microbes and other germs have the ability to bite or sting, they are certainly included in this "gripeful” critique.2018, Ben Raiche, People Like Us. From the entry gripeful
• We also prove some rigidity theorems for polynomial parabolic germs, which state that one can recover unicritical holomorphic and antiholomorphic polynomials from their parabolic germs..2016, Hiroyuki Inou, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, “Discontinuity of straightening in antiholomorphic dynamics”, in arXiv. From the entry multicorns
• Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for germs but for children's immune systems, too, and paradoxically causes more disease than it prevents.2015 April 4, Judith Woods, “I knew it! Spring cleaning is bad for your family's health [print version: Vindicated at last! It's healthier…. From the entry abysmally
• It was only a matter of time before germs adapted further and turned on us, the microscopic little hellbeasts, and we were all brainrotted zombies.2013, Lyla Payne, Staying On Top, Whitman University, #4. From the entry brainrotted
• Do these people put milk in an aging tank to mature like wine in a place where air and germs can't get to it?2011, Marvin Carpenter, The 1929 Depression: Hey! That’s Perry County!, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry twang
• He was microphobic (afraid of germs), agoraphobic (afraid of open spaces and unfamiliar places), and eventually he became panphobic (afraid of everything and everyone).2008, Karla Clark, Annie's Heaven, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry panphobic
• She mixed banana and onion, poured tahini over soyed bok choy, tried to turn out thousand-year-old eggs in a day, substituted wheat germ for salt.1987, John Krich, One Big Bed, New York, N.Y. […]: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry soyed
• The evidence they produced consisted of feathers, insects, clams, rats, and other things riddled with germs and allegedly dropped from American planes.1968, Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 493. From the entry confession
• Lahmann's unprecedented success proved beyond doubt the correctness of his teachings and the fallacy of the germ theory of disease, vaccinations and serum therapy.1926, Otto Carqué, The Key to Rational Dietetics, page 7. From the entry therapy
• The study of comparative embryology, nevertheless, would lead us to expect to find this germ layer arising by a process of gastrulation.1909, John Thomas Patterson, Gastrulation in the Pigeon's Egg, University of Chicago, page 66. From the entry gastrulation
• Often, people call out the five-second rule because they think that if you get food off the floor quickly enough, there won't be any germs on it.2015, Curious George Discovers Germs. From the entry five-second rule
• Later it was found that both genes are specifically expressed in germ cell clusters, primordial and early primary oocytes in females and in prespermatogonia and spermatogonia in males.2015 September 17, “Immunohistochemical Study of Expression of Sohlh1 and Sohlh2 in Normal Adult Human Tissues”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry prespermatogonia

Meaning of germ

1. noun The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
2. noun The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
3. noun A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.

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How do you use germ in a sentence?

Germ is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The reverend doctor will enlighten us with a lecture on the germ theory.”

What is a short sentence with germ?

“the germ of civil liberty”

What does germ mean?

Germ means the embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.