Definitions
a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
Word origin
From Middle French germe, from Latin germen (“bud, seed, embryo”). Doublet of germen.
Used in a sentence
“surgical removal of germs of wisdom teeth”
“'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'”
“the germ of civil liberty”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Tiny pathogen”4 letters
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