Germ may refer to:
- Microorganism, especially a pathogen; see Germ theory of disease
- Germ cell, an ovum or sperm, or one of its progenitors
- The Germ (periodical), a periodical established by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to disseminate their ideas
- Germ (mathematics), an object in a topological space that captures local properties
- Cereal germ, the reproductive part of a cereal grain
- Germ, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune of the Hautes-Pyrénées département in southwestern France
Germs may refer to:
- Germs (band), an American punk rock band (1976-1980, 2005—present)
- The Germs (comics), a comic strip in the magazine The Beano
- Germs (Invader Zim), an episode of Invader Zim
- "Germs" (song), a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Famous quotes containing the word germ:
“And such the trust that still were mine,
Though stormy winds swept o’er the brine,
Or though the tempest’s fiery breath
Roused me from sleep to wreck and death.
In ocean cave, still safe with Thee
The germ of immortality!
And calm and peaceful shall I sleep,
Rocked in the cradle of the deep.”
—Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)
“I care not by what measure you end the war. If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America, whatever may be your object, depend upon it, as true as effect follows cause, that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers, and poison the fair fruits of freedom. Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.”
—Ernestine L. Rose (1810–1892)
“In the Original Unity of the First Thing lies the Secondary Cause of All Things, with the Germ of their Inevitable Annihilation.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)