Noun germination has 2 senses
  1. germination, sprouting - the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
    --1 is a kind of growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
    Derived forms: verb germinate3, verb germinate1
  2. germination - the origin of some development; "the germination of their discontent"
    --2 is a kind of
    origin, origination, inception
    Derived form: verb germinate3
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