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17 words match “GERMINATE”

GERMINATE v. 2 definitions
To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ. Bacon.
EGERMINATE v.
To germinate. [Obs.]
INGERMINATE v.
To cause to germinate.
REGERMINATE v.
To germinate again. Perennial plants regerminate several years successively. J. Lee.
ACROSPIRE n.
The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.
COUCH n.
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
GERM v.
To germinate. [R.] J. Morley.
MUMMY n.
mummy cases of Egypt. No botanist now believes that genuine mummy wheat has been made to germinate in modern times. -- To beat to a mummy, to beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.
PULLULATE v.
To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton.
PUT v.
he French . . . had put back to Toulon." Southey. -- To put forth. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. "Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth." Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. Shak. -- To put in (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. -- To put in for. (a) To make a request or claim…
SET v.
To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
SHOOT v.
To germinate; to bud; to sprout. Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. Bacon. But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. Dryden.
SPRIT v.
To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
SPROUT v.
To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
SPRUNT v.
To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward. [Obs.] To sprunt up, to draw one's self up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up. [Local, U.S.]
STERILE a.
Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
VEGETATE v.
s, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. Pope.