Germinate
['dʒɜːmɪneɪt] or ['dʒɝmɪnet]
Definition
(verb.) cause to grow or sprout; 'the plentiful rain germinated my plants'.
Checked by Antoine--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
(v. t.) To cause to sprout.
Editor: Rae
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Sprout, shoot, vegetate, bud, push, pullulate, put forth, burst forth, spring up, begin to vegetate.
Checked by John
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sprout, shoot, bud, vegetate
ANT:Rot, decay
Editor: Maureen
Definition
v.i. to spring from a germ: to begin to grow.—v.t. to produce.—adj. Germ′inant sprouting: sending forth germs or buds.—n. Germinā′tion.—adj. Germ′inative.
Editor: Sweeney
Examples
- Habit is hereditary with plants, as in the period of flowering, in the time of sleep, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to germinate, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Seeds which remain on our shelves do not germinate, but those which are planted in the soil do; so it is with the yeast plants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We cannot tell what seeds of the future may not be germinating already amidst our present confusions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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