Germination

Gerˊmi-na′tion

,

Noun.

[L.

germinatio

: cf. F.

germination

.]

The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.

Germination apparatus

,

an apparatus for malting grain.

,

Noun.

The act of sprouting; the first beginning of vegetation in a seed or plant.

1.

The time in which seeds vegetate, after being planted or sown.

germination ‎(countable and uncountable, plural germinations)

The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
  Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.

process of germinating