Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word GERMINAL

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Definitions of GERMINAL

1. Relating to spring
2. Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
3. (botany) Relating to a plant ovary.
4. (figuratively) Serving as a point of origin; formative.
5. (figuratively) Highly influential; seminal.
6. (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.

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Examples of Using GERMINAL in a Sentence

• It was introduced on June 25th, 1928 as a replacement for the Germinal franc, which had been established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803.
• This was the first time that a vessel other than a canoe or other oar-powered vessel had sailed into Lake Huron, and La Salle's voyage was germinal in the development of commercial shipping on the Great Lakes.
• It was signed in the city of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (4 Germinal X in the French Revolutionary calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace".
• The most striking of his later novels include Happe-chair (1886), often compared with Zola's Germinal, L'Arche, journal d'une maman (1894) and Le Vent dans les moulins (1901), which returns to Flemish subjects.
• Humoral immunity refers to antibody production and the coinciding processes that accompany it, including: Th2 activation and cytokine production, germinal center formation and isotype switching, and affinity maturation and memory cell generation.
• They are usually derived from B lymphocytes, classically considered crippled germinal center B cells.
• Burkitt lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system, particularly B lymphocytes found in the germinal center.
• Most oligodendrocytes develop during embryogenesis(in the womb) and early postnatal(postbirth) life from restricted periventricular germinal regions.
• In mammals, the first part of oogenesis starts in the germinal epithelium, which gives rise to the development of ovarian follicles, the functional unit of the ovary.
• Bourdon then became a violent reactionary, attacking the former members of The Mountain and supporting rigorous measures against the rioters of the 12 Germinal Year III, and that of 1 Prairial Year III.
• From an average of five executions a day in Germinal, the rate rose to seventeen in Prairial and twenty-six in Messidor.
• This mitosis occurs in the germinal neuroepithelium (or germinal zone), when a radial glial cell divides to produce the neuroblast.
• In Ventôse and Germinal (roughly late winter and early spring) he published, under the pen name of Lalande, soldat de la patrie, a new paper, the Eclaireur du Peuple, ou le Défenseur de Vingt-Cinq Millions d'Opprimés, which was hawked clandestinely from group to group in the streets of Paris.
• In 1876, he suggested a hypothesis in explanation of heredity, resembling the germ plasm theory subsequently elaborated by August Weismann, to the effect that the germinal protoplasm retains its specific properties from generation to generation, dividing in each reproduction into an ontogenetic portion, out of which the individual is built up, and a phylogenetic portion, which is reserved to form the reproductive material of the mature offspring.
• Robert Klark Graham (June 9, 1906 – February 13, 1997) was an American eugenicist and businessman who made millions by developing shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses and who later founded the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for geniuses, in the hope of implementing a eugenics program.
• He featured for clubs including North York Rockets in Canada, Germinal Ekeren, Anderlecht (where he won the national championship twice), Lierse and Waasland-Beveren in Belgium, Everton and Fulham in England and Skoda Xanthi in Greece.
• Within the secondary lymphoid organs, most of the B cells will enter B-cell follicles where a germinal center will form.
• It is characterized by white lumps in the undersurface of the upper eyelid (conjunctival follicles or lymphoid germinal centres) and by nonspecific inflammation and thickening, often associated with papillae.
• The incipit and epilogue of Émile Zola's novel Germinal form an epanadiplosis: the same character walks alone along the same road.
• Floréal and Nivôse are based at Réunion, Vendémiaire at Nouméa, Prairial at Tahiti and Ventôse and Germinal at Martinique.
• The Limburgians had been ahead almost the entire season but were pipped at the post by Anderlecht after losing at Germinal Beerschot.
• However, the cerebral vasculature and germinal matrix are poorly developed in fetuses, and subsequently, there is an unacceptably high risk for intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) if administering ECMO at a gestational age less than 32 weeks.
• Germinal was armed with two Exocet MM38 surface-to-surface missiles in launchers situated centrally atop the midships superstructure.
• After an impressive season with Germinal, Dagano moved to Genk, where he won the Ebony Shoe and scored 19 goals as the club won the league title for only the second time in its history, before spells in France, with Guingamp and FC Sochaux.
• The sporocysts contain germinal cells that give rise to 1–6 mother rediae (a trematode larval form with an oral sucker).

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