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germination

DEFINITIONS OF: germination

1

n the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow

Synonyms:
sprouting
Type of:
development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

n the origin of some development

“the germination of their discontent”
Type of:
inception, origin, origination
an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
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