WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
2.7
History
Add

germinate verb [ ˈdʒəːmɪneɪt ]

• (of a seed or spore) begin to grow and put out shoots after a period of dormancy.
Similar: sprout, put forth shoots, shoot, shoot up, bud, put forth buds, form/develop buds, develop, grow, spring up, swell, burgeon, vegetate, pullulate,
Origin: late 16th century: from Latin germinat- ‘sprouted forth, budded’, from the verb germinare, from germen, germin- ‘sprout, seed’.


2025 WordDisk