germinates , germinating , germinated
If a seed germinates or if it is germinated, it starts to grow.
Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so.
有一些品种的种子发芽快,所以差不多每天都要察看一下。
First, the researchers germinated the seeds.
首先,研究人员使种子发芽。
If an idea, plan, or feeling germinates, it comes into existence and begins to develop.
a big book that was germinating in his mind.
他脑中正在酝酿的一部大作。