Germinate Definition

jûrmə-nāt
germinated, germinates, germinating
verb
germinated, germinates, germinating
To sprout or cause to sprout, as from a spore, seed, or bud.
Webster's New World
To start developing or growing.
Webster's New World
To come into existence.
An idea germinated in his mind.
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Origin of Germinate

  • Latin germināre germināt- to sprout from germen germin- sprout, bud genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin germinatus, past participle of germinare (“to sprout”).

    From Wiktionary

Germinate Sentence Examples

  • When the tuber of a potato begins to germinate the shoots which it puts out derive their food from the accumulated store of nutritive material which has been laid up in the cells of the tuber.

  • They soon acquire a cell-wall, and germinate without a period of rest.

  • Aplanospores would seem to represent zoospores arrested in their development; without reaching the stage of motility, they germinate within the sporangium.

  • Allowing for those which fail to germinate (perhaps 25%), loss in transplanting, weak and backward plants, &c., one ounce of seed should yield about 40,000 plants.

  • The spores germinate on a damp surface and enter the cortex through small cracks or wounds in the protecting layer.

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Words Starting With

GGEGER

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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Words Starting With G and Ending With E

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With G9 Letter Words Ending With E