germination
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"They wanted to play and build stuff. They were making houses or ships or scenery, and they wanted to jump in, and all of that learning was the germination of Roblox," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025
Water and other nutrients in the compost triggered germination of the spores within the plastic strips, which reached 90% degradation within five months.
From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024
Last year, the space team studied germination rates of Wisconsin Fast Plants in space.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024
While thinning can reduce fuels, burning also provides ecological benefits not provided by thinning alone, like creating growing space and receptive seedbeds, promoting germination of seeds stored in soil and increasing nutrient availability.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2024
But the germination, growth, and disease resistance of plants are adapted to precisely those features of climate.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing germination
Life Science: Plants
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Plants (Botany) - Introduction
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