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Germinate   /dʒˈərmənˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Germinate  v. t.  To cause to sprout.



Germinate  v. i.  (past & past part. germinated; pres. part. germinating)  To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.






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... dropped from the clouds into a remote and unknown land, widely and completely isolated from all he had ever seen or known before; or like a thistle-seed borne on the wind to some strange nook of uncongenial soil, where it must lie long enough before it can take root and germinate, extracting nourishment from what appears so alien to its nature: if, indeed, it ever can. But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired, stationary life as mine, can ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte

... by means of seeds. Some, however, such as tarragon, which does not produce seed, and several other perennial kinds, are propagated by division, layers, or cuttings. In general, propagation by means of seed is considered most satisfactory. Since the seeds in many instances are small or are slow to germinate, they are usually sown in shallow boxes or seed pans. When the seedlings are large enough to be handled they are transplanted to small pots or somewhat deeper flats or boxes, a couple of inches being allowed between the plants. When conditions are favorable in the ...
— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains

... takes some of them longer to germinate and make ready to bloom than it does others. But of course it's true in a general way that the first to be planted are ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith

... sets us free from all evil and from all fear of evil—it brings us out of the kingdom of death into the kingdom of Life. Like everything else, it has to grow, but the good seed of liberating Truth once planted in the heart is sure to germinate, and the more we endeavour to foster its growth by seeking to grasp with our understanding the reason of these things and to realise our knowledge in practice, the more rapidly we shall find our lives increase in livingness—a joy to ourselves, a brightness to our homes, and a ...
— The Hidden Power - And Other Papers upon Mental Science • Thomas Troward

... world from which all the mountains of the earth have grown, and at the summit of which is the fountain of waters, whereby grow two trees—the Heavenly Soma, and another tree which yields all the seeds that germinate on earth. From this fountain, according to the Buddhist tradition, flow four streams to the four points of the compass, each of them making a ...
— Storyology - Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore • Benjamin Taylor


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