[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.", "a bud, offshoot, or seed.", "the rudiment of a living organism; an embryo in its early stages.", "the initial stage in development or evolution, as a germ cell germ cellor ancestral form.Synonyms: seed , rudiment , bud , root , spark", "something that serves as a source or initial stage for subsequent development:the germ of an idea."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["Pathology.of, relating to, or caused by disease-producing germs."]}]