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Germ vs. Germicide — What's the Difference?

Germ vs. Germicide — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Germ and Germicide

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Germ

(Biology) A small mass of protoplasm or cells from which a new organism or one of its parts may develop.

Germicide

A substance or other agent which destroys harmful microorganisms.

Germ

The earliest form of an organism; a seed, bud, or spore.

Germicide

A substance or agent that kills germs, especially pathogenic microorganisms; a disinfectant.

Germ

A microorganism, especially a pathogen.
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Germicide

An agent that kills pathogenic organisms; a disinfectant.

Germ

Something that may serve as the basis of further growth or development
The germ of a project.

Germicide

A germicidal agent.

Germ

(biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud, spore, or zygote.

Germicide

An agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease

Germ

The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.

Germ

(biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
Surgical removal of germs of wisdom teeth

Germ

A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.

Germ

(figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
The germ of civil liberty

Germ

An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.

Germ

To germinate.

Germ

(slang) To grow, as if parasitic.

Germ

That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.
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.

Germ

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

Germ

The germ cells, collectively, as distinguished from the somatic cells, or soma. Germ is often used in place of germinal to form phrases; as, germ area, germ disc, germ membrane, germ nucleus, germ sac, etc.

Germ

A microorganism, especially a disease-causing bacterium or virus; - used informally, as, the don't eat food that falls on the floor, it may have germs on it.

Germ

To germinate.

Germ

Anything that provides inspiration for later work

Germ

A small simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

Germ

A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

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