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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Germinated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Germinating

[L.

germinatus

, p. p. of

germinare

to sprout, fr.

germen

. See

To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.

Bacon.

Verb.

To cause to sprout.

Price (1610).

Verb.

[L. germino, from germen.] To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed.

Verb.

To cause to sprout. [Unusual.]