Associations to the word «Germination»

Wiktionary

GERMINATION, noun. The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.

Dictionary definition

GERMINATION, noun. The process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow.
GERMINATION, noun. The origin of some development; "the germination of their discontent".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne