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What (who) is Germinate - definition
PROCESS BY WHICH AN ORGANISM GROWS FROM A SEED
Germinate; Germination rate; Germinating; Seed germination; Germinated; Germination of seeds; Pollen germination; Spore germination; Germinates
![3D-visualization of ''Aspergillus niger'' spore germination. This image has been captured using [[holotomography]] microscopy.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/3D-visualization of Aspergillus niger spore germination.gif?width=200 "3D-visualization of ''Aspergillus niger'' spore germination. This image has been captured using [[holotomography]] microscopy.")
![Germination of [[seedlings]] raised from [[seeds]] of [[eucalyptus]] after three days of [[sowing]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seedling of Eucalyptus.jpg?width=200 "Germination of [[seedlings]] raised from [[seeds]] of [[eucalyptus]] after three days of [[sowing]]")
![Germination glass (glass sprouter jar) with a plastic [[sieve]]-lid](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sprossenglas.JPG?width=200 "Germination glass (glass sprouter jar) with a plastic [[sieve]]-lid")
germinate
(germinates, germinating, germinated)
1.
If a seed germinates or if it is germinated, it starts to grow.
Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so...
First, the researchers germinated the seeds.
VERB: V, V n
• germination
The poor germination of your seed could be because the soil was too cold.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
2.
If an idea, plan, or feeling germinates, it comes into existence and begins to develop.
He wrote to Eliot about a 'big book' that was germinating in his mind.
VERB: V, also V into n
germinate
v. n.
Sprout, shoot, vegetate, bud, push, pullulate, put forth, burst forth, spring up, begin to vegetate.
germinate
['d??:m?ne?t]
¦ verb (of a seed or spore) begin to grow and put out shoots after a period of dormancy.
Derivatives
germination noun
germinative adjective
germinator noun
Origin
C16 (earlier (ME) as germination): from L. germinat-, germinare 'sprout forth, bud', from germen, germin- 'sprout, seed'.
Wikipedia
Germination
Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or spore. The term is applied to the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, such as the spores of fungi, ferns, bacteria, and the growth of the pollen tube from the pollen grain of a seed plant.
Examples of use of Germinate
1. Many native plants actually need fires to germinate.
2. Senior officers tend to be sensitive when their subordinates germinate ideas.
3. Perhaps it could have been given the strength to germinate a new genre.
4. Exotic weed–like grasses that germinate quickly can fill in areas faster than natives can recover.
5. Equally, a warm spring will see farmers‘ crops start to germinate earlier.