germination
noun
the process of germinating or of beginning to exist and develop; the very first stage of the development of anything.
germinations
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pluralof germination.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Dry-farmers try to provide against this danger by using an unusually large amount of seed, assuming that a certain amount will fail to come up because of the repeated partial germinations.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
Furthermore, the subjects of the vegetable kingdom derive their germinations from influx out of the spiritual world.
From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by John Ager
This alone will stop the germinations of sin, and check wickedness in its conception.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 by Aaron Walker
Two separate frosts, during a century otherwise so full of movement as the sixteenth in England, repressed and killed all germinations of free intellectual or social intercourse amongst ourselves.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
It is interesting to mark, as we can in history, first, the feeble germinations of a papal dogma; next, its waxing growth; and at last, after the lapse of centuries, its full development and maturity.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
