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1 a: a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts b: the embryo with the scutellum of a cereal grain that is usually separated from the starchy endosperm during milling2: something that initiates development or serves as an origin : rudiments, beginning3: microorganism
; especially : a microorganism causing disease
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