germinates
- present tense form of germinate (3rd person singular).
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
Community germinates during class, through empathetic eye contact with a neighbor while breathing heavily during a tough workout.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2022
As the hormone gradually breaks down over winter, the seed is released from dormancy and germinates when conditions are favorable in spring.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Unfortunately, I've never had much luck with it, probably because it germinates best at soil temperatures between 50 and 70 degrees F and the warm, sometimes even hot fall days mess with the germination.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2021
Every seed that germinates in the soil and is allowed to grow, if only for a short while, tends to exhaust the soil.
From Rambles with John Burroughs by Loach, Robert John de
