germinate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Of a seed, to begin to grow, to sprout roots and leaves. intransitive
    — the Chalcites, which hath a Spirit that will put forth and germinate
  2. To cause to grow; to produce. transitive
    — These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.

词形变化

germinates present,singular,third-person germinating participle,present germinated participle,past germinated past

词汇关系

近义词
ackerspyre
衍生词
autogerminate degerminator germinative ingerminate nongerminated pregerminated regerminate ungerminated ungerminating
相关词
germ german germane germen germination

词源

From oblique stem of Latin germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”) + -ate, from germinātus (“sprouted, budded, grown”), past participle of germinō (“to sprout, bud, grow”), from germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”).
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