Definition of germination in English:
germination
noun dʒəːmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)nˌdʒərməˈneɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun1The development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy.
successful germination of crops
light can influence seed germination
Example sentencesExamples
- Plant only well-cleaned, high-quality, disease-free seed with a germination of 80 percent or greater.
- Planting rates can be increased to compensate for seed of low germination.
- Hot, dry conditions also reduce the favorable climate for pollen germination.
- A soil temperature of 86 degrees is optimum for soybean germination.
- Physical or mechanical damage to the seed also will affect germination.
- Buy seed with a high germination rate or separate out the small asparagus seed.
- Wireworm feeding may reduce seed germination or produce weak seedlings.
- Spring applications of pre-emergence herbicides should be made prior to weed seed germination.
- Seedlings surviving fungal infections at germination are often less vigorous.
- Cool, wet, seedbeds resulting in delayed germination may warrant including an insecticide seed treatment.
- 1.1 The process of something coming into existence and developing.
the rules would stifle the germination of new ideas
Example sentencesExamples
- Our commercial was very carefully crafted and was the germination of showing people how this is a revolutionary and positive experience.
- The fact that the country has a high degree of cultural homogeneity has prevented the germination of open hostilities between the different ethnic groups.
- The germination of this collaboration took shape quite casually over drinks.
- You can see zazen prior to the germination of your intellectual sense.
- She asked the artist about the germination of this complex sound installation.
- Can you describe your animation techniques, from the germination of an idea to the finished product?
- She has barely laid one project to rest before she pins down, in her diary, the germination of a new idea.
- That is the moment you are you as you really are, prior to the germination of thinking.
- Together these circumstances created fertile ground for the germination of modernism.
- The classroom is the last available site for the debate and germination of genuinely dangerous ideas.
Definition of germination in US English:
germination
nounˌdʒərməˈneɪʃ(ə)nˌjərməˈnāSH(ə)n
1The development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy.
successful germination of crops
light can influence seed germination
Example sentencesExamples
- Spring applications of pre-emergence herbicides should be made prior to weed seed germination.
- Seedlings surviving fungal infections at germination are often less vigorous.
- A soil temperature of 86 degrees is optimum for soybean germination.
- Plant only well-cleaned, high-quality, disease-free seed with a germination of 80 percent or greater.
- Cool, wet, seedbeds resulting in delayed germination may warrant including an insecticide seed treatment.
- Physical or mechanical damage to the seed also will affect germination.
- Buy seed with a high germination rate or separate out the small asparagus seed.
- Wireworm feeding may reduce seed germination or produce weak seedlings.
- Planting rates can be increased to compensate for seed of low germination.
- Hot, dry conditions also reduce the favorable climate for pollen germination.
- 1.1 The process of something coming into existence and developing.
the rules would stifle the germination of new ideas
Example sentencesExamples
- You can see zazen prior to the germination of your intellectual sense.
- Can you describe your animation techniques, from the germination of an idea to the finished product?
- Together these circumstances created fertile ground for the germination of modernism.
- The germination of this collaboration took shape quite casually over drinks.
- Our commercial was very carefully crafted and was the germination of showing people how this is a revolutionary and positive experience.
- That is the moment you are you as you really are, prior to the germination of thinking.
- The fact that the country has a high degree of cultural homogeneity has prevented the germination of open hostilities between the different ethnic groups.
- She asked the artist about the germination of this complex sound installation.
- She has barely laid one project to rest before she pins down, in her diary, the germination of a new idea.
- The classroom is the last available site for the debate and germination of genuinely dangerous ideas.