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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs germ and germinate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

germinal
  1. Pertaining or belonging to a germ.
  2. (figuratively) Of or pertaining to something very small, as small as a germ; pertaining to the essence of something.
  3. (figuratively) Highly influential, seminal.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. seminal, original, influential, important, innovative, formative, groundbreaking, pioneering, productive, major, epoch-making, critical, crucial, inspirational, fundamental, inspiring, ground-breaking, pivotal, primary, persuasive, effective, convincing, compelling, motivating, instrumental, effectual, meaningful, moving, efficacious, telling, strong, stirring, touching, rousing, guiding, potent, seductive, alluring, masterful, affecting, enticing, motivational, provocative, swayful, powerful, forceful, striking, decisive, inducing, dynamic … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Microscopy revealed acellular laminated membranes with a germinal layer within the medullary cavity of the tibia and fibula.”
      “It isn't sensible to make predictions based on evolution when cloning and germinal choice technology are a decade away.”
      “The surrounding stroma was infiltrated by plasma cells and scattered aggregates of lymphocytes, forming follicles with germinal centres.”
germinative
  1. Of or pertaining to germination
  2. Having the ability to germinate
  3. Examples:
      4. “Underlying the nail plate is the nail bed, composed of the germinative layer of the epidermis.”
      “Dormancy is the inability of the viable seed to commence germinative growth even when environmental conditions are physiologically favourable.”
      “The seeds are brown, exceedingly small, and retain their germinative properties three years.”
germinable
  1. Having the ability to germinate
  2. Examples:
      3. “At Dixon Springs, the germinable seed bank was estimated from soil samples collected in Fall 1999 before flowering, and in the subsequent spring.”
      “Alternatively, a transient seed bank may occur where there is no carry over of germinable seed from one season to the next.”
germophobic
  1. Morbidly afraid of germs.
germlike
  1. Having the characteristics of a germ
germy
  1. (informal) That carries germs.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unhygienic, dirty, filthy, unclean, contaminated, polluted, foul, unsanitary, impure, noxious, unwholesome, insalubrious, unhealthy, insanitary, festy, infested, septic, deleterious, skanky, harmful, detrimental, disease-ridden, germ-ridden, infected, toxic, feculent, dirtied, rotten, rank, rancid, scungy, unhealthful, stinking, stale, fetid, putrid, putrescent, decayed, tainted, scummy, vile, sordid, squalid, sullied, messy, dusty, stained, soiled, tarnished, sloppy … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Touching your eye with germy fingers is a great way to get a cold or nasty eye infection such as pink eye.”
      “So that he could explain halitosis, she came up with a giant, germy tongue.”
      “By Elizabeth Kolbert Earthlings are fragile, demanding, and germy, not obviously suited to life elsewhere.”
germproof
  1. Resistant to germs.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Josh, of Darlington, Co Durham, spent two months in a germproof bubble and still needs physiotherapy for his legs.”
germless
  1. Free from germs.
  2. Examples:
      3. “He varied the experiment in every direction, but matter in the germless air never yielded life.”
      “In contact with germless air the uncontaminated must never ferments.”
      “The streams are germless, and the forest cannot be devastated.”
germed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of germ
germing
  1. present participle of germ
germinated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of germinate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. developed, followed, arose, stemmed, ensued, resulted, transpired, came about, came into being, came off, chanced, derived, sprang, sprung, occurred, picked up, uprose, went, brake, broke, broke out, burst out, came into existence, sprouted, erupted, issued, propagated, fomented, happened, metamorphosed, set in, shot up, upsprang, upsprung, developt, emanated, emerged, flowed, proceeded, formed, eventuated, come about, unfolded, come into being, arisen, evolved, materialized, manifested, surfaced, appeared … more
germinating
  1. present participle of germinate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sprouting, budding, pullulating, vegetating, blooming, blossoming, flowering, developing buds, forming buds, shooting up, putting forth buds, putting forth shoots, springing up, growing, burgeoning, developing, shooting, maturing, taking root, springing, swelling, bourgeoning, flourishing, opening out, efflorescing, bursting forth, bearing fruit, incubating, pushing, appearing, thriving, producing buds, putting forth new growth, starting to grow, prospering, unfolding, opening, sending out shoots, proliferating, abounding, blowing, spreading, multiplying, producing, emerging, mushrooming, battening, maturating, coming along, faring well … more
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