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germination|dʒɜːmɪˈneɪʃən|
[ad. L. germinātiōn-em, n. of action f. germināre: see germinate v. Cf. F. germination.]
1. The action or process of germinating, sprouting, or putting forth shoots; also, an instance of this. Used properly of a seed; hence of a plant, and also of the similar development of the spore in cryptogams.
1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 23 It helpeth toward the generation and germination of all seeds. 1627–77Feltham Resolves, Lett. v. 67 Can the Sun shine, and the dew fall, and not the Earth return her Germinations? 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxv. 178 Herein we finde no security to prevent its germination, as having made tryall in graines whose ends cut off have notwithstanding suddenly sprouted. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 251 The whole globe would be one frigid zone..there would be no life, no germination. 1707Curios. Husb. & Gard. 135 Salts are not absolutely necessary to the Germination of Plants. 1776Bp. Watson Apol. Chr. i. 22 Any one phænomenon in nature, from the rotation of the great orbs of the universe to the germination of a blade of grass. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 81 Germination would then proceed with dangerous rapidity in that part [of a heap of grain]..while in other parts the vegetation would not have commenced. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 170 The germination which converts the acorn into an oak. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. i. iv. 44 The essentials to germination are found by experience to be a certain amount of moisture, warmth, and air. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 362 The spore..increases in size as soon as germination commences..and divides into two cells.
fig.1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. 65 The sundry Germinations and Springings up of the works of Righteousness in him are a delectable Paradise to him. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) II. 268 We see the germination of that usurpation. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xvii. 623 A time of germination in religious history.
2. transf. Used for: Efflorescence, ebullition.
1665Hooke Microgr. 128 Excrescencies or Ebullitions in the snuff of a Candle, partly from..a kind of Germination or Ebullition of some actuated unctuous parts which creep along. Ibid. 130 Why may not the Phænomena of Ebullition or Germination be in part..from the levity of an impregnated liquor. 1774Brownrigg in Phil. Trans. LXIV. 483 Various other kinds of salts formed by germination, assume this fibrous texture. |