| 单词 | baby-germ |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbaby-germ baby-germ n. Obsolete (chiefly poetic) a seed or germ capable of developing into a new organism (cf. germ n. 3); an embryo; (in quot. 1883) a pupa.In quot. 1842: a young child considered as the root of an unknown future. ΚΠ 1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 562/2 Baby germ of freshest hue, Out of ruin issuing new; Moss a long laborious growth, And one stalk supporting both. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xx, in Poems (new ed.) II. 69 She gamboll'd on the greens, A baby-germ. 1883 St. Nicholas Apr. 403 We wait without and call: Myriads we of creatures small,..Sheathed blades and folded wings, Baby germs in close-coiled rings. 1920 R. Van Saun Honey-comb 471 This mysterious, unseen, silent evolutionary process is going on within mother's body; the hidden baby-germ buried, that I might create a Precious new-life within my own body. < as lemmas |
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