Antonyms for germinal:
adj. developing, flowering
adj. rudimentary
adj. beginning, primary
Examples of uses:
From the germinal impression of a description, all the details grow; to this primary impression they all contribute.
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Title: English: Composition and Literature, author: W. F. (William Franklin) Webster, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28097/28097-h/28097-h.htm
In a one-celled individual, there is no distinction between germinal and bodily functions.
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Title: Taboo and Genetics, author: Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14325/14325-h/14325-h.htm
In the youngest egg which I had, the germinal disc was already divided into four segments by two furrows at right angles.
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Title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1, author: Francis Maitland Balfour, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41357/41357-h/41357-h.htm
The furrows in this case reached quite to the edge of the germinal disc.
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Title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1, author: Francis Maitland Balfour, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41357/41357-h/41357-h.htm
Where it cuts the surface it forms the zone of lighter colour immediately surrounding the germinal disc.
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Title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1, author: Francis Maitland Balfour, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41357/41357-h/41357-h.htm
There are therefore at this stage no distinct segments: the otherwise intact germinal disc is merely grooved by two furrows.
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Title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1, author: Francis Maitland Balfour, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41357/41357-h/41357-h.htm
The innermost band is formed by the germinal disc itself and is composed of spherules of the smallest size.
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Title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1, author: Francis Maitland Balfour, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41357/41357-h/41357-h.htm
I failed to observe any nuclei in the germinal disc just described, but it by no means follows that they were not present.
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Title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1, author: Francis Maitland Balfour, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41357/41357-h/41357-h.htm
In the next youngest of the eggs examined the germinal disc was already divided into twenty-one segments.
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Title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1, author: Francis Maitland Balfour, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41357/41357-h/41357-h.htm
The amount of irregularity is far from constant and many germinal discs are more regular than the one figured.
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Title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1, author: Francis Maitland Balfour, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41357/41357-h/41357-h.htm
