0 past simple and past participle of imbibe
1 to drink, especially alcohol:
Have you been imbibing again?
The initial state of the membrane is that of a dormant, imbibed seed at low temperature (1).
This variation in protein phosphorylation represents one of the earliest reported biochemical differences in imbibed dormant and germinable seed embryos.
This observation would seem to indicate that two very distinct mechanisms of dormancy breaking are operational in imbibed seeds versus dry seeds.
Mitochondria were isolated from fully imbibed seeds (12 h) and at the end of germination (22 h), just before radicle protrusion.
Seeds made water-permeable by boiling imbibed water, and thus germinated, at a much slower rate than those made water-permeable by mechanical scarification.
Only 4% of the control seeds imbibed, and only 3% of them germinated.
The presence of a gut barrier in ticks indicates that there is a specific interaction between virus (imbibed in the bloodmeal) and midgut cells.
The starch granules were more angular in the dry kernels than in the imbibed kernels, in which the starch granules were rounder and more turgid.
