Germinal vs Aboriginal - What's the difference?
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Pertaining or belonging to a germ.
(label) Of or pertaining to something very small, as small as a germ; pertaining to the essence of something.
(label) Highly influential, seminal.
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
* 1814 , , The Excursion , Longman et al. (publishers), [http://books.google.com/books?id=T18JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=aboriginal page 277]:
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
(Aboriginal)
An animal or plant native to a region.
* Charles Darwin
(Aboriginal)
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As adjectives the difference between germinal and aboriginal
is that germinal is pertaining or belonging to a germ while aboriginal is first according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.As proper nouns the difference between germinal and aboriginal
is that germinal is the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, from March 20 or 21 to April 20 or 21 while Aboriginal is any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines.As a noun aboriginal is
an animal or plant native to a region.germinal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was only the most germinal idea, to start writing a book, originally.
Usage notes
In sense “highly influential”, primarily used as a consciously feminist alternative to male (m) ( vs. (term)).Synonyms
* (relating to seed) (l) * (influential) (l)Derived terms
* germinal cell * germinal disk * germinal epithelium * germinal matrix * germinal membrane * germinal spot * germinal vesicle * subgerminalExternal links
* *Anagrams
* * ----aboriginal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
Synonyms
* (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primevalDerived terms
* aboriginality * aboriginallyNoun
(en noun)- It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.