germination

Noun
  1. The process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow (synset 113508410)
    is a type of: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
    same as: sprouting
  2. The origin of some development (synset 107338835)
    "the germination of their discontent"
    is a type of: inception, origin, origination - an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

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