germen

How to use germen in a sentence

• Mr. Berkeley found no difficulty, and had the stem impregnated as well as the germen.

  Fungi: Their Nature and Uses | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

• So in Latin, canmen from cano was pronounced, and then written carmen; genmen from the obsolete γενω passed into germen.

  Elements of Gaelic Grammar | Alexander Stewart

• The globular part contains the pistil, which consists merely of a germen and stigma, together with the surrounding stamens.

  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe

• germen oblong, striated, curved slightly outwards, but at length becoming erect and rugged.

  Lachesis Lapponica | Carl von Linn

• In P. farinosa the germen is broadly obovate and the stigma capitate; here the germen is globose and the stigma has five points.

  Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers | John Wood