germinate

«germinate» in Mova's school dictionary: When a seed germinates, it starts to grow and puts out a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (germinate, germinates, germinated, germinating)

meaning for a pupil

1) When a seed germinates, it starts to grow and puts out a root and a shoot. tree →

2) To germinate an idea is to begin to develop it (formal). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, seeds need water, warmth and air to germinate; light is not needed at first. Children germinate beans in jars on wet cotton wool or paper towel. Phrases: «seeds germinate», «take days to germinate».

examples

• The bean seeds germinated after five days. tree →
• Seeds need water and warmth to germinate. tree →
• We germinated cress on damp cotton wool. tree →
• Seeds will not germinate if they are too cold. tree →
• The root comes out first when a seed germinates. tree →
• An idea for the story germinated in her head. tree →

note

Noun: «germination». Not to be confused with «germ» (a tiny thing that causes illness) — though both come from an old word for «seed» or «sprout». In science problems, count the days to germinate or the number of seeds that germinate out of a total («8 out of 10 germinated»).

In the corpora

• Most seeds do not need light to germinate, because they use their own food store at first.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «germinate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.