0 past simple and past participle of germinate
1 to (cause a seed to) start growing:
The beans will only germinate if the temperature is warm enough.
2 to start developing:
No surface-sterilized seeds germinated in any of the pretreatments although viability remained at 100%.
The germinated and nongerminated seeds were counted using a binocular microscope.
Germinated seeds were counted and removed and distilled water added at weekly intervals.
Light treatments were inspected weekly for germinated achenes and dark treatments every second week.
The methods applied to obtain primed seeds without loss of longevity are very similar to those used to induce desiccation tolerance in germinated seeds.
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 two of 221 seeds (<1%) monitored beneath the study tree or in the experimental plots germinated, one after its seed coat was damaged.
In this experiment, 4 replicate batches of 100 seeds of each treatment combination were stored and after treatment seeds were germinated as described above.
