(~s, germinating, ~d)
1.
If a seed ~s or if it is ~d, it starts to grow.
Some seed varieties ~ fast, so check every day or so...
First, the researchers ~d the seeds.
VERB: V, V n
germination
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 ~s, 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