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But wildflowers also need at least six weeks of coolish weather to grow after they germinate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 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

Southern California received heavy rain last summer, unlike its usually dry summers, which she said probably stimulated flowers to germinate out of season.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2024

And when a seed is dropped in, it can easily germinate and take root and push its tender new leaves toward the sun and begin the marvelous process of photosynthesis.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

Meadowfoam germinates in early fall well in advance of winter weeds.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023

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

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023

The starch in the seeds provides food for the embryo as it germinates and can also act as a source of food for humans and animals.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Gold already germinates in the idea of value, it is only developed value.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels

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

Those were the starter trees that spread the seed that had germinated and was now thriving in the open sunlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025

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

Mr Biddulph said now they are "recognised as malting ovens, used to heat partially germinated grain to produce malt".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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

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

Oddly enough, all the seeds that fall from the plant don’t need any special treatment before germinating and taking over.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

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