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germinate

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Latin germinātus, past participle of germināre (“to sprout”).

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germinate (third-person singular simple present germinates, present participle germinating, simple past and past participle germinated)

  1. (intransitive, botany, horticulture) Of a seed, to begin to grow, to sprout roots and leaves.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
      the Chalcites, which hath a Spirit that will put forth and germinate
    • 2014 April 5, “Quite interesting: A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week; QI orchids you not”, in The Daily Telegraph (Weekend), page W22:
      Orchids rely on fungi to reproduce. Their tiny seeds don't have any on-board nutrients (like beans and apples) and will not germinate until they are infected by a symbiotic fungus which supplies them with food. Known as a protocorm, this tiny orchid-fungus ball grows, turns green and eventually starts to photosynthesise.
    • 2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 23 December 2014:
      […] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
  2. (transitive) To cause to grow; to produce.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎[2]:
      These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.

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germinate

  1. inflection of germinare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

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germināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of germinātus

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germinate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of germinar combined with te
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