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In the entire process in which a new being originates
. . . two distinct classes of action participate; namely, the act of
generation by which the germ is produced; and the act of
development, by which that germ is evolved into the complete
organism.

2. That from which anything springs; origin;
first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.

Disease germ (Biol.), a name applied
to certain tiny bacterial organisms or their spores, such as
Anthrax bacillus and the Micrococcus of fowl cholera,
which have been demonstrated to be the cause of certain diseases. See
Germ theory (below). -- Germ cell
(Biol.), the germ, egg, spore, or cell from which the
plant or animal arises. At one time a part of the body of the parent,
it finally becomes detached,and by a process of multiplication and
growth gives rise to a mass of cells, which ultimately form a new
individual like the parent. See Ovum. -- Germ
gland. (Anat.) See Gonad. --
Germ stock (Zoöl.


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