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germinate
verb germinated, germinating
- intr
1. biol.
- Said of a seed or spore: to show the first signs of development into a new individual.
- Thesaurus: bud, sprout, grow, generate, develop, shoot, swell, vegetate.
intr
2b. To come into being or existence.
noun
- The first stages in the development of an embryo into a seedling, involving the emergence of the radicle (sense 1) and plumule (sense 1) from the seed.
