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1. Produce buds, branches, or germinate
   "the potatoes germinated"
   - shoot, spud, pullulate, bourgeon [archaic], burgeon forth, sprout, burgeon
    
2. Work out
   "We have germinated a new theory of evolution"
   - evolve, develop
    
3. Cause to grow or sprout
   "the plentiful rain germinated my plants"

Derived forms: germinating, germinates, germinated

See also: germ, germination

Type of: create by mental act, create mentally, grow

Encyclopedia: Germinate