germinate
verb (used without object)
to begin to grow or develop.
germinates
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present tense formof germinate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Normally, a pollen grain that sticks to the stigma of a flower during pollination germinates into a long tube that grows straight and unbranched through the ovary to the ovules, where fertilisation takes place.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
Microgreens are simply the cotyledons or seed leaves, that first emerge from a seed when it germinates.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023
The need some feel to atone germinates a perceived opportunity for redemption; humans initially, ignorantly and irrationally feared the tiger-like creature, believing it to be a danger to them and their sheep.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2021
Rake as much of the seed as possible into the aeration holes; grass seed that germinates on top of the sod layer rarely survives.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2017
Jesus was well aware of this when He compared His gospel to the leaven which raises the dough and to the seed which germinates in the soil into which it falls.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
