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These favorable conditions allowed seeds that had remained inactive in the dry soil to germinate, producing an extraordinary variety of wildflowers across the landscape.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

The seed bank has been recharged, she said, but that doesn’t mean those seeds will bloom in 2024; wildflower seeds can lie dormant for years before they germinate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

A new sensation begins to germinate inside me.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

Ditto germinates the seeds and when they’re about 2 inches tall, they pack them up and ship them out so customers can then plant them in their windowsills and gardens.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

Unfortunately, I've never had much luck with it, probably because it germinates best at soil temperatures between 50 and 70 degrees F and the warm, sometimes even hot fall days mess with the germination.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2021

The need some feel to atone germinates a perceived opportunity for redemption; humans initially, ignorantly and irrationally feared the tiger-like creature, believing it to be a danger to them and their sheep.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2021

The grass grows, the seed sprouts and germinates, very much how they may, with little or no aid from man.

From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

Eight seedlings successfully germinated, with two now transferred to Logan Botanic Garden, where the climate is considered particularly suitable for rare Chilean plants.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

Now tens of thousands of nursery-grown seedlings are mixed with the hundreds of thousands that germinated naturally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 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

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

Don’t trample or pick the flowers and stay on the paths because even barren ground could have seeds germinating beneath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

And while the concept for the memorial is still germinating, Nina has already pinned down the title.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025

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

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