- 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 - germination - the origin of some development; "the germination of their discontent"
--2 is a kind of origin, origination, inception
Derived form: verb germinate3