Meaning

5 senses

  1. Relating to spring

  2. Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.

  3. Relating to a plant ovary.

  4. (figuratively)Serving as a point of origin; formative.

    My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera.

  5. (figuratively)Highly influential; seminal.

    This case was germinal to development of the theory of joint participation.

More definitions
  • containing seeds of later development

Examples

1 sentences

  1. It's the month of Germinal.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From oblique stem of Latin germen, germinis (“seed”) + -al.

From oblique stem of Latin germen, germinis (“seed”) + -al.

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Forms

more germinal, most germinal
Comparativemore germinal Lesson
Superlativemost germinal Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
relating to spring:vernal
relating to seed:seminal
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words
Relatedfranc germinalgerm
Derivedabgerminaladgerminalautogerminalbigerminalgerminal centergerminal diskgerminallygerminal matrixgerminal spotnongerminalpostgerminalsubgerminal

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
GermanA2germanicgerminategerontocracygerrymander
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