germinantadj.n.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 679 (MED) Too bowes..they take And bynde..That theyen germynaunt [L. germinantes oculos] togidre go.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Dd4 Prophecies..are not fulfilled punctually, at once, but haue springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages. View more context for this quotation

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Germinant, sprouting, budding, blossoming, &c.

1735 Prospect: Divine Poem ii. 58 Glistning stores Of richest Jewels germinant to Flow'rs.

1789 W. Cooke Revelations Translated Introd. p. xv A proof of the Christian faith, which has been ever, and is still nascent and germinant.

1838 Brit. Critic July 150 Whether the most successful revolution is not germinant with its own punishment.

1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. xxvi. 73 He destroyed subordinate errours by simply proclaiming germinant truths.

1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes v. 91 Thus we trace out the beginning of the germinant process in the first cell which takes its outward course.

1870 J. B. Brown First Princ. Eccl. Truth 266 The ideas were germinant and fruitful.

1881 W. R. Nicoll Incarnate Saviour viii. 148 The teaching of Christ was not exhaustive but germinant.

1914 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 52 246 It traces the development of imperialistic ideas..from the germinant form in the city-state through the deification of rulers.

1926 E. Holloway Whitman iii. 110 Were such a germinant vision as this that came to Whitman planted in the arid soil of a pious asceticism,..only impotent and visionary results could grow from it.

1986 Biochem. Jrnl. 15 395 Comparison of the adsorption capacities of conidia and germinant conidia.

2011 W. G. Whitford & Y. Steiinberger in J. Seckbah & Z. Dubinsky All Flesh is Grass iv. 250 The relationships suggested that graminivory would be highest in overgrazed areas where small and germinant grasses are surrounded by bare soil.

1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation ii. 29 The dry ground of man's nature is spoken of as germinant with the plant of our salvation.

1856 P. Fairbairn Prophecy i. ii. 32 The germinant soil out of which predictions were ever springing forth.

1877 G. W. Kitchin Hist. France III. v. vii. 330 On this vigorous but difficult nature, as a rich and germinant soil, the teaching of Fénelon worked wonders.

1905 E. A. Travis Pang-Yanger vii. 104 The insistent smell of the germinant soil mingled with the fainter odour of the budding foliage.

1991 J. Schmitt tr. P. Neruda Canto General xi. xv. 301 Above this unity like firm Germinant earth, creative permanence Has been disposed.

1886 Twentieth Ann. Rep. Connecticut Board Agric. 150 Here we have, for instance, two samples of corn, both of which, under favorable conditions, will germinate one hundred per cent; that is, they are both perfect germinants.

1932 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 51 126 It may be said that stabilization of the filtrable phase or its germinants without their return to the original has always been a stumbling block to the majority of bacteriologists.

1947 Bull. N.Y. State Agric. Exper. Station 39 The last figure in each case represents the abnormal germinants known as ‘baldheads’ in the laboratory test roll and by growers as ‘snakeheads’ in the field.

1983 Sci. Hort. 19 26 Numbers of seeds germinated were counted daily for 3 weeks and after each count the germinants were discarded.

2010 D. Lindenmayer et al. Forest Phoenix ii. 48 For many Australian species such as eucalypts, the fall of seeds from the canopy after the fire is the major source of germinants.

1898 F. H. S. Merewether Tour Famine Districts India i. i. 7 It was unanimously agreed that filth and want of sanitation were, if not the actual germinants, at any rate all-important factors in the spread and propagation of the epidemic.

1960 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 46 126 This impermeable waterproofed barrier may be breached by chemical means.., by mechanical abrasion, or by physiological germinants.

1989 Mycol. Res. 93 29/1 Airborne cells..are dehydrated and shrunken..and cannot be subjected to chemical treatments, e.g. with germinants.

2001 S. S. Block Disinfection, Sterilization, & Preserv. (ed. 5) xxvii. 534/2 The most widely studied nutrient germinant is L-alanine.