If a seed germinates or if it is germinated, it starts to grow. Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so First, the researchers germinated the seeds. + germination ger·mi·na·tion The poor germination of your seed could be because the soil was too cold
If an idea, plan, or feeling germinates, it comes into existence and begins to develop. He wrote to Eliot about a `big book' that was germinating in his mind