transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒɜ:(r)mɪneɪt ]
( germinates, germinating, germinated)
1.
If a seed germinates or if it is germinated , it starts to grow.
Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so...
First, the researchers germinated the seeds.
VERB : V , V n
• ger‧mi‧na‧tion
The poor germination of your seed could be because the soil was too cold.
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp
2.
If an idea, plan, or feeling germinates , it comes into existence and begins to develop.
He wrote to Eliot about a ‘big book’ that was germinating in his mind.
VERB : V , also V into n