germination

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin germinātiō, By surface analysis, germinate +‎ -ion.

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

germination (countable and uncountable, plural germinations)

1. The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:

     Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with gemination.

Derived terms

• nongermination
• postgermination
• pregermination

Translations

process of germinating

Bulgarian: покълване (bg) n (pokǎlvane), поникване (bg) n (ponikvane) Catalan: germinació f Chinese: Mandarin: 發芽 / 发芽 (zh) (fāyá) Czech: klíčení n Dutch: kieming (nl) f Finnish: itäminen (fi) Georgian: ამოსვლა (amosvla), გაღივება (gaɣiveba), აღმოცენება (aɣmoceneba) Japanese: 発芽 (ja) (はつが, hatsuga) Korean: 발아(發芽) (ko) (bara) Spanish: germinación (es) f Welsh: eginiad m

French

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Noun

germination f (plural germinations)

1. germination

Further reading

• “germination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.