germinate
verb [intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they germinate | |
| he / she / it germinates | |
| past simple germinated | |
| past participle germinated | |
| -ing form germinating |
- germinate (something)
when the seed of a plant germinates or is germinated, it starts to grow （使）发芽，萌芽，开始生长 Oxford Collocations DictionaryGerminate is used with these nouns as the subject:- seed
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin germinat- ‘sprouted forth, budded’, from the verb germinare, from germen, germin- ‘sprout, seed’.