germ

Main Entry:
germ [jurm]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: microscopic organism, often causing illness
Synonyms: antibody, bacterium, bug*, disease, microbe, microorganism, parasite, pathogen, plague, virus, what's going around
Main Entry: beginning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: origin, cause
Synonyms: antecedent, birth, conception, egg, embryo, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, generation, genesis, germ, heart, principle, resource, root, seed, stem, well
Antonyms: conclusion, outcome, result
Main Entry: bud
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: new sprout on plant
Synonyms: bloom, blossom, embryo, floret, germ, incipient flower, nucleus, shoot, spark
Main Entry: bug
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bacterium, microorganism
Synonyms: bacillus, disease, germ, infection, microbe, virus
Notes: a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs
insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings
Main Entry: cell
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: smallest living organism
Synonyms: bacterium, cellule, corpuscle, egg, embryo, follicle, germ, haematid, microorganism, spore, unit, utricle, vacuole
Notes: a cell is a small compartment or the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, while sell means to exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent
Main Entry: egg
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seed, cell; embryo of an animal
Synonyms: bud, cackle, cackleberry, germ, nucleus, oospore, ovum, roe, rudiment, spawn, yellow eye
Main Entry: essence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: heart, significance
Synonyms: aspect, attribute, backbone, base, basis, be-all and end-all, being, bottom, bottom line, burden, caliber, character, chief constituent, constitution, core, crux, element, entity, essentia, essentiality, fiber, form, fundamentals, germ, grain, kernel, life, lifeblood, main idea, marrow, meaning, meat*, name of game, nature, nitty-gritty, nub, nucleus, pith, point, principle, property, quality, quiddity, quintessence, reality, root, soul, spirit, structure, stuff, substance, timber, vein, virtuality
Main Entry: kernel
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seed, essence
Synonyms: atom, bit, center, core, crux, fruit, germ, gist, grain, heart, hub, keynote, marrow, matter, meat, morsel, nub, nubbin, nut, part, piece, pith, root, substance, upshot
Notes: a kernel is the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain, while a colonel is a commissioned military rank
Main Entry: microbe
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bacteria
Synonyms: bacillus, bacterium, bug*, crud, germ, microorganism, pathogen, plague, virus
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