germinal

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Relating to spring
  2. Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
  3. Relating to a plant ovary.
  4. Serving as a point of origin; formative. figuratively
    — My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera.
  5. Highly influential; seminal. figuratively
    — This case was germinal to development of the theory of joint participation.

词形变化

more germinal comparative most germinal superlative

词源

From oblique stem of Latin germen, germinis (“seed”) + -al.
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