Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The form of a germ at any period of its germination or development, with reference to its morphological value.
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Examples
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From the common germ-form we infer a common stem-form.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Once admit that certain beings have the power of discerning the future in its germ-form of the Cause, as the great inventor sees a glimpse of the industry latent in his invention, or a science in something that happens every day unnoticed by ordinary eyes -- once allow this, and there is nothing to cause an outcry in such phenomena, no violent exception to nature's laws, but the operation of a recognized faculty; possibly a kind of mental somnambulism, as it were.
Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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