Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sprouting or germination anew.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A germinating again or anew.

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  • noun Germination again or anew.

Etymologies

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Latin regerminatio.

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Examples

  • In the guise of “helping less fortunate countries”, they move in, introduce their products, which include seeds that only yield one crop (no regermination for the future).

    Is Swine Flu source leaked military weapon? 2009

  • In the guise of “helping less fortunate countries”, they move in, introduce their products, which include seeds that only yield one crop no regermination for the future.

    Is Swine Flu source leaked military weapon? 2009

  • But here again, it does not take too long before regermination.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • Old England the land of our fathers, and nearly in the whole, if not quite, a regermination and new growth of old race instincts and practices on a new soil.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 Various

  • Introduction: Characterization of the age from eight to twelve -- The era of recapitulating the stages of primitive human development -- Life close to nature -- The age also for drill, habituation, memory, work and regermination -- Adolescence superposed upon this stage of life, but very distinct from it.

    Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

  • Introduction: Characterization of the age from eight to twelve -- The era of recapitulating the stages of primitive human development -- Life close to nature -- The age also for drill, habituation, memory work, and regermination -- Adolescence superposed upon this stage of life, but very distinct from it

    Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

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