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Jumping straight into a list of major to-dos would leave little time for ideas to germinate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

And getting certification is a rigorous, costly process, as seeds need to be tested in a laboratory for their purity and things like how well they germinate.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025

For instance, certain types of organic molecules formed in soil during fires are needed for many seeds to germinate.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024

Dudney added that the seeds of some native flowers can stay dormant for a long time and don’t necessarily germinate even in ideal conditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

Should the plant become genetically reprogrammed so as to germinate at a time more appropriate to Canada—say, late June—the plant would still be in trouble for other reasons.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Normally, a pollen grain that sticks to the stigma of a flower during pollination germinates into a long tube that grows straight and unbranched through the ovary to the ovules, where fertilisation takes place.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

Microgreens are simply the cotyledons or seed leaves, that first emerge from a seed when it germinates.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023

Community germinates during class, through empathetic eye contact with a neighbor while breathing heavily during a tough workout.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

As the hormone gradually breaks down over winter, the seed is released from dormancy and germinates when conditions are favorable in spring.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

In Arabia, the same seed produces three harvests, because the grain which falls at the time of harvesting to the ground, germinates immediately and suffices for new seed.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

It is easy to laugh at the childlike naiveté of sending seeds to Mars, an idea that never germinated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Once the grains germinated in a laboratory, the seedlings were planted in water in June, and harvesting began in early October.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

Boxes full of fresh onions in the courtyard have now germinated.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

With extensive fieldwork, researchers from the University of Göttingen in Germany and Ben Gurion University in Israel investigated how freshly germinated grass dies inside the fairy circle.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2024

So they saw that they had to plant more seedpod trees for the sake of the oil, but the pods were so hard that they seldom germinated.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Deadwood-decomposing fungi feed germinating orchids, providing the carbon their tiny seeds don't have.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025

Yet even though they’ve held a raft of public hearings and workshops on potential new laws and regulations, another plan is germinating behind closed doors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

As Lee and Johnsen prepare for the next growing season, they’re nurturing hundreds of plants inside the atrium of their home as well as germinating and starting new plants from seedlings.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024

In a final step, the researchers used a chemical process to confirm whether the excreted seeds were capable of germinating.

From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024

I put the drawing of the man with the germinating brain in my room on the wall where I can see it when I roll over.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan