Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stage in the early development of an organism; the state of being a germ.
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By an artifice that varies according to the mother's talent, their grubs, either in the germ-stage or newly-born, are brought into touch with the victim that is to feed them: an unwounded victim, for most of them are without a sting; a live victim, but steeped in the torpor of the coming transformations and thus delivered without defence to the grub that is to devour it.
The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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