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germ   (TTS Sound)

The noun germ has 3 senses

• source, seed, germ -- (anything that provides inspiration for later work)


• germ -- (a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism)


• microbe, bug, germ -- (a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use)