germination

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• 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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

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

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with gemination.

Translations

process of germinating

• Bulgarian: покълване (bg) n (pokǎlvane), поникване (bg) n (ponikvane)
• Catalan: germinació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發芽 (zh), 发芽 (zh) (fāyá)

• Czech: klíčení n

• Dutch: kieming (nl) f
• Finnish: itäminen (fi)
• Georgian: ამოსვლა (amosvla), გაღივება (gaɣiveba), აღმოცენება (aɣmoceneba)
• Japanese: 発芽 (はつが, hatsuga)
• Korean: 발아 (ko) (發芽, bara)
• Spanish: germinación (es) f