germination

English

Etymology

From oblique stem of Latin germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”) +‎ -ation, from Latin germinātiō, germinātiōnem (“sprouting, budding, growing”), from germinātus (“sprouted, budded, grown”), past participle of germinō (“to sprout, bud, grow”), from germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”). By surface analysis, germinate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdʒɜːɹ.mɪˈneɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

• Arabic: اِنْتَاش m (intāš)
• Bulgarian: покълване (bg) n (pokălvane), 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)
• Hindi: अंकुरण (hi) m (aṅkuraṇ)
• Japanese: 発芽 (ja) (はつが, hatsuga)
• Korean: 발아(發芽) (ko) (bara)
• Spanish: germinación (es) f
• Welsh: eginiad m

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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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