germinal vs primal

germinal

adj
  • Highly influential; seminal. 

  • Relating to a plant ovary. 

  • Relating to spring 

  • Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ. 

  • Serving as a point of origin; formative. 

primal

adj
  • Of greatest importance; primary. 

  • Being the first in time or in history. 

  • Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. 

noun
  • A primal cut (of meat). 

verb
  • To take part in primal therapy. 

How often have the words germinal and primal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )