germination

Borrowed from Latin germinātiō, By surface analysis, germinate +‎ -ion.

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

germination (countable and uncountable, plural germinations)

1. The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:

     Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.

• Not to be confused with gemination.

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germination f (plural germinations)

1. germination

• “germination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.