germination
Example Sentences
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Its seeds can lay dormant for years until intense heat and other cues from a wildfire triggers germination.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2025
"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
This research provides valuable information about how plants reproduce and has the potential to benefit agricultural breeding by increasing seed production and improving germination rates.
From Science Daily • May 21, 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
I don't make a chart and monitor the percentage of germination, because I don't do that anymore.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
