the sexual reproductive cell at any stage from the primordial cell to the mature gamete.
Origin
1850-55
British Dictionary definitions for germ cell
germ cell
noun
1.
a sexual reproductive cell; gamete Compare somatic cell
germ cell in Medicine
germ celln. An ovum or a sperm cell or one of their developmental precursors. Also called sex cell.
germ cell in Science
germ cell
One of the diploid cells in the reproductive organs of a multicellular organism that undergo division and are the precursors of haploid gametes, such as a spermatogonium or oogonium.