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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cause to sprout or grow.
  2. v. To begin to sprout or grow.
  3. v. To come into existence: An idea germinated in his mind.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To act as a germ; begin to undergo development toward a more complete form or state; form or be formed into an embryo, as an impregnated ovum.
  2. Specifically, to sprout; bud; shoot; begin to vegetate or grow, as a plant or its seed.
  3. To cause to sprout; put forth; produce.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To sprout or produce buds.
  2. v. To cause to grow.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
  2. v. To cause to sprout.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. work out
  2. v. cause to grow or sprout
  3. v. produce buds, branches, or germinate

Etymologies

  1. Latin germināre, germināt-, to sprout, from germen, germin-, sprout, bud. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (14)

Words with the same meaning

  1. sprout
  2. bud
  1. shoot
  2. cause
  1. germ
  2. grow
  1. burgeon
  2. germin
  1. generate
  2. pullulate
  1. blade
  2. vegetate
  1. catch
  2. set

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. die

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. create by mental act
  1. create mentally
  1. grow

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. crook-backed
  2. non-compliant
  3. married
  4. brigh
  1. carris
  2. dark-stained
  3. unloose
  4. befal
  1. re-erected
  2. leathered
  3. enlist
  4. redo
  1. over-persuaded
  2. conquer
  3. broken-up
  4. plastic-wrapped
  1. come-out
  2. lying-in
  3. produc
  4. repayable
  1. court-martialled
  2. carraway

rhymes (3)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. determinate
  1. exterminate
  1. terminate

reverse dictionary (38)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. egerminate
  2. ingerminate
  3. couch
  4. germ
  5. sprit
  6. sprunt
  7. catch
  1. braird
  2. resting
  3. pullulate
  4. acrospire
  5. germine
  6. shoot
  7. regerminate
  1. resting spore
  2. viviparous
  3. germinate
  4. sprout
  5. spud
  6. bourgeon
  7. burgeon forth
  1. take
  2. mummy wheat
  3. set
  4. slime mold
  5. sterile
  6. vegetate
  7. come
  1. germ cell
  2. micropuccinia
  3. nemeæ
  4. prick
  5. resting-spore
  6. shove
  7. spear
  1. spiricle
  2. amphispore
  3. yeast-budding

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  • Kristianto2010 It takes some time for mushroom spores to germinate, whereas other fungi such as green moulds germinate and spread much faster. Jan 24, 2011

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