germination meaning

• Noun: germination  `jurmu'neyshun
  1. The process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
     - sprouting 
  2. The origin of some development
     "the germination of their discontent"

  Derived forms: germinations

  See also: germinate

  Type of: development, growing, growth, inception, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, origin, origination

  Encyclopedia: Germination

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  [Medicine]
  The initial stages of the growth of SEEDS into a SEEDLING. The embryonic shoot (plumule) and embryonic PLANT ROOTS (radicle) emerge and grow upwards and downwards respectively. Food reserves for germination come from endosperm tissue within the seed and/or from the seed leaves (COTYLEDON). (Concise Dictionary of Biology,1990)

• Excessive moisture is unfavourable for soybean germination.
• Better germination is obtained if the seed is sown or drilled shortly after a shower.
• germination is a measure of the capacity of a grain kernel of producing a normal seedling.
• Many ideas require years or even decades of germination before they are enacted into law.
• germination of the seed will be reduced if wet grain is frozen before the moisture is removed.
• Seed germination may be suppressed if boronated fertilizers are mixed with the seed at planting time.
• germination data is needed to determine whether or not a given lot of pollen is sterile or very weak.
• The glyoxylate bypass enzymes are at or below the limits of detection, even after a single day of germination.
• Residues from herbicides applied to previous crops can sometimes be detrimental to soybean germination or growth the following year.
• Rules for agricultural seed testing-germination test

• "germination" meaning in Chinese: n. 萌芽，发生。
• "germination" meaning in Japanese: germination n. 発芽. 【＋動詞】 ◆Germination has begun . 発芽が始まった....
• "germination" meaning in Russian: 1) прорастание2) проращивание3) зарождение; рост, развитие...
• "germination" meaning in French: n. germination