germ

病原菌、ばい菌

病気を引き起こすことがある、ごく小さな生物やウイルス。

やさしい英語で： A very small living thing, or a virus, that can cause illness.

• Soap helps remove germs from your hands.
• Coughing can spread germs through the air.
• This cleaner kills most household germs.

類義語： pathogen

よく使う表現： kill a germ, spread a germ, harmful germ

芽、萌芽

後に大きく発展する物事の、最初の小さな考えや始まり。

やさしい英語で： The first small idea or beginning from which something bigger develops.

• I have the germ of an idea.
• Her dream provided the germ of the story.
• Those early notes contained the germs of several later projects.

使い方： germ of something (That conversation contained the germ of a new project.)

類義語： seed, beginning, origin

よく使う表現： germ of something, germ of an idea, germ of a plan

胚芽

種の中で、成長すると新しい植物になる部分。

やさしい英語で： The part of a seed that can grow into a new plant.

• She adds wheat germ to her breakfast.
• The germ can grow into a new plant.
• Processing the grain removes much of its germ.

類義語： embryo

よく使う表現： wheat germ, seed germ, germ oil

原基、芽

体の一部や新しい生物へと発達する、小さな細胞の集まり。

やさしい英語で： A small group of cells from which a body part or a new living thing develops.

• The tooth germ forms beneath the gum.
• The surgeon removed a wisdom tooth germ.
• These germs develop into different parts of the organism.

使い方： germ of something (The scan showed the germ of a developing tooth.)

類義語： primordium, bud

よく使う表現： tooth germ, developing germ, germ of something