germinate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GERM'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin germino, from germen.] To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed. GERM'INATE, verb transitive To cause to sprout. [Unusual.]
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