germinative

[jur-muh-ney-tiv, -muh-nuh-tiv]

adjective

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

Other Word Forms

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of germinative¹

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

The wind’s mythologically sexual aspect can be aggressive, relentless and even, in some legends, germinative.

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