germling, n.
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈdʒəːmlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdʒərmlɪŋ/
Etymology: < germ n. + -ling suffix1, after German Keimling product of germination (Middle High German -kīmelinc in ertkīmelinc shoot, young tree).
Bot.
The product of germination of a seed or spore; spec. a germinating alga or fungus.
1853 tr. W. Hofmeister in A. Henfrey & T. H. Huxley Sci. Mem. viii. 258 We find, in recompense for the wide separation it makes between the Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons, the most striking agreement of the development of the embryo of the latter, with the course of formation of the germling [Ger. Keimling] of the Vascular Cryptogamia.
1889 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 268 If, however, a germling be covered with a glass jar, it perishes at once.
1935 New Phytologist 34 257 The oospore germinates within the common jelly which persists for a few days. By this time the germlings are multicellular and have formed at least the first rudiments of the rhizoids.
1982 M. J. Dring Biol. Marine Plants (1986) vi. 130 A patch of rock..which was cleared of all macroalgae and barnacles in the summer, was found to contain 2–3 microscopic fucoid germlings per mm2 after 8 months.
2007 Ecology 88 841/1 Feeding preferences of snails include periphyton and microalgae and possibly the spores and germlings of macroalgae.
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