Germinal

/ˈdʒɜː(ɹ)mɪnəl/

Synonyms for "germinal" (98 found)

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Closest matches (20)

aboriginal atomic basal basic central conceptive conceptual corpuscular creation creative crucial elemental elementary embryonic esemplastic evanescent fattening fecund

Adjective(2 words)

blastular embryonic

Strong matches (29)

fecundative fertile fertilizing fetal fructificative fundamental generative genetic germinant germinational germinative germiparous granular ideational ideative imaginative impalpable imperceptible imponderablein embryo

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in ovoin the budinappreciable indiscernible infinitesimal ingenious

Adjective(3 words)

formative incipient initial

Related words (49)

inspired intangible inventive invisible larval life-giving microcosmic microscopic molecular multiparous notional original originative pregnant primal primary primeval primitive primordial pristine

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procreant procreative productive prolific propagative protogenic radical reproductive richening rudimentary seminal shaping spermatic spermatozoic subatomic teeming tenuous thin ultramicroscopic unseeable visioned

Adjective(7 words)

nascent originative primordialseed bearingseed relatedseminal zygotic

Noun(1 words)

seedling emergence

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More general

7 entries

Revolutionary calendar monthbotany conceptdevelopmental stageearly stageembryologyinitial conceptseed biology

More specific

9 entries

embryo endospermformative theorygerm cellgerminal diskgerminal layerincipient ideanascent hypothesisseed coat

Collocations

6 entries

germinal centergerminal diskgerminal epitheliumgerminal layergerminal stagegermination process

Inflections

2 entries

more germinalmost germinal

Derivations

4 entries

germinality germinally germinate germination

similar

1 entries

original

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera.

Source: wiktionary

This case was germinal to development of the theory of joint participation.

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