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nounthe process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
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"the germination of their discontent"nounthe origin of some developmenttype of:
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- biennial (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season
- stratification the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination
- germ pore a pore in the outer wall of a spore or pollen grain through which the germ tube or pollen tube makes its exit on germination
- order blastocladiales fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes
- blastocladiales fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes
- germ tube (botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination
- dicot family family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
- magnoliopsid family family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
- dicot genus genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
- magnoliopsid genus genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination