Noah Webster
Germinate
GERM'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin germino, from germen.] To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed.
GERM'INATE, verb transitive To cause to sprout. [Unusual.]
GERM'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin germino, from germen.] To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed.
GERM'INATE, verb transitive To cause to sprout. [Unusual.]