The Collaborative International Dictionary
Germinate \Ger"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Germinated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Germinating.] [L. germinatus, p. p. of
germinare to sprout, fr. germen. See Germ.]
To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant
or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
--Bacon.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: germinate)
Usage examples of "germinated".
Both seeds of the Avena germinated, one grew well, the other had its radicle brown and withered.
Tranquillity was germinated in 2428, on the order of the then Crown Prince of Kulu, Michael Saldana, as a modified version of an Edenist habitat, with a number of unique attributes the Prince himself requested.
They were there to supervise Aethra, a bitek habitat that had been germinated in 2602 as part of the Edenist contribution to developing the Lalonde system.
Even as the fantasy germinated in her mind she knew that wasn’t the real answer.
The only time it had ever come near to failure was when Crown Prince Michael germinated Tranquillity.
Eden had been germinated in 2075, making it the oldest living entity in the Confederation.
Habitats Romulus and Remus germinated in Saturn orbit to serve as voidhawk bases.
This bean had germinated on bare damp sand, and the epicotyl began to straighten itself much sooner than would have occurred if it had been properly planted.
There was, however, a possible, but not probable, source of error in these trials, for it was not ascertained whether the beans themselves go on swelling for several days after they have germinated, and after having been treated in the manner in which ours had been.
Lastly, the radicles of four beans, which from some innate cause germinated later than all the others of the same lot, and which grew slowly though appearing healthy, were similarly tried, and even after 24 h.
A few were selected, which from having germinated on sand were crooked, but when suspended in damp air the terminal part grew straight downwards.
Of two pots containing seedlings of Phalaris which had germinated in darkness, one was still kept in the dark, and the other was exposed (Sept.
To test this, many seedlings of Phalaris, which had germinated in darkness in a very narrow box several feet in length, were placed in a darkened room near to and in front of a lamp having a small cylindrical wick.
Two of the six seeds germinated whilst still lying on the leaves, but the seedlings, when transferred to damp sand, soon died.
Three never germinated, and this was a far larger proportion of deaths than occurred with seeds of the same lot, which had not been subjected to the secretion, but were otherwise treated in the same manner.