germinative

• “This egg consists of an outer envelope, the vitelline membrane, containing a fluid more or less dense, the yolk; within this is a second envelope, the so-called germinative vesicle, containing a somewhat different and more transparent fluid, and in the fluid of this second envelope float one or more so-called germinative specks.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862

• “Until thirty years ago the embryology of the higher vertebrates always started from the position that the first structure of the embryo is a flat, leaf-shaped disk; it was for this reason that the cell-layers that compose this germinal disk (also called germinative area) are called "germinal layers.”

  The Evolution of Man — Volume 1

• “In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.”

  Representative Men

• “This practice is due to the lesser germinative potential of the seedstock.”

  Chapter 6

• “In view of its functional significance, it may be called the _motory_ layer, or better, since it forms also the sexual glands, the _motor-germinative_ layer.”

  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

• “The distinction which he draws between the sensory and trophic layers on the one hand, and the motor-germinative layer on the other, is entirely a histological one.”

  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

• “By means of the germinative affinity, every gemmule (except in cases of anomalies or monstrosities) can be developed only in cells homologous with the mother-cells of the cell from which they originated.”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “The gemmules possess two sorts of affinity, one of which might be called _propagative_, and the other _germinative_ affinity.”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “With regard to the gemmules of Mr. Darwin, we have seen, in Chapter X., with how many innate powers, tendencies, and capabilities they must each be severally endowed, to reproduce their kind, to evolve complex organisms or cells, to exercise germinative affinity, &c.”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “When properly stored in air-tight receptacles, however, as is now done by some seed dealers, it will retain its germinative power for several years with only slight depreciation.”

  Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods

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