Definitions for "Germinal"
The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendÉmiaire.
seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds
The Germinal is a light monitoring frigate ("frégate de surveillance") of the French Marine Nationale. She is the sixth and last ship of her class, and the first French vessel named after Germinal, the 7th month of the Republican Calendar.
Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.
Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells.
(JER-mih-nawl epithelium A layer of epithelial cells covering the ovaries.
containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"