(countable) A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality.

(uncountable) An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium. / A surname.

Of or relating to the nation of Germany. / Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent. / Of, in or relating to the German language.

A state of the Southeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Belo Horizonte

(grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language)

A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Rhine, Elbe, and upper Danube Rivers in Central Europe, taken as a whole under its various governments.

A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Ge) with an atomic number of 32: a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group. / (countable) An atom of this element.

An agent that kills pathogenic organisms; a disinfectant.

The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.

To germinate. / (slang) To grow, as if parasitic.