| 词汇 | germ |
| 词源 | germ. The Latin word germen, “sprout,” is the ultimate root of germ. Long before it meant the seed of a disease, a usage first recorded in 1803, germ meant “any portion of a living thing, animal or vegetable, that is capable of development into a like- ness of that from which it sprang.” Hence the name wheat germ for the tiny living protoplasm in the wheat kernel. |
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