germinative

American  

[jur-muh-ney-tiv, -muh-nuh-tiv] / ˈdʒɜr məˌneɪ tɪv, -mə nə tɪv /

adjective

1. capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.

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Other Word Forms

• germinatively adverb
• nongerminative adjective
• regerminative adjective
• regerminatively adverb
• ungerminative adjective

Etymology

Origin of germinative

First recorded in 1700–10; germinate + -ive

Example Sentences

More and more, as that initiating episode of what is sometimes called postmodernism recedes into history, it looks to be one of 20th century art’s finest, most germinative hours.

From New York Times

Some of these names, it may be observed, are expressive not only of their primordial character, but also of a germinative or productive power.

From Project Gutenberg

Society is the germinative power in the common-place child, who gives out his sparks only under external blows.

From Project Gutenberg

The egg of the Star-fish, when first formed, is a transparent, spherical body, enclosing the germinative vesicle and dot.

From Project Gutenberg

The half-century from about 60 B.C. to about 10 B.C. was, at once, one of those rare and germinative epochs in the history of the world, in which a powerful intellectual movement coincides with, influences, and is influenced by a great movement and change in human affairs; and it was at the same time a period of a rich and elaborate culture, in which the inheritance of Greek genius, art, and knowledge came for the first time into the full possession of the Romans.

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