germination
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The germination of taverns, eating houses, crafts and industries to cater to this commerce generated a culture replete with folklore, songs, literature and art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
During dry years, no wildflowers appear above ground, but the seeds remain dormant until rain stimulates germination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
"They wanted to play and build stuff. They were making houses or ships or scenery, and they wanted to jump in, and all of that learning was the germination of Roblox," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
This research provides valuable information about how plants reproduce and has the potential to benefit agricultural breeding by increasing seed production and improving germination rates.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
Thus, farmers selected from among individual plants on the basis not only of perceptible qualities like size and taste, but also of invisible features like seed dispersal mechanisms, germination inhibition, and reproductive biology.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Furthermore, the subjects of the vegetable kingdom derive their germinations from influx out of the spiritual world.
From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by John Ager
The Conflict of Conscience is worthy of notice as being one of the earliest germinations of the Historical Drama.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
This alone will stop the germinations of sin, and check wickedness in its conception.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 by Aaron Walker
Two separate frosts, during a century otherwise so full of movement as the sixteenth in England, repressed and killed all germinations of free intellectual or social intercourse amongst ourselves.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
It is interesting to mark, as we can in history, first, the feeble germinations of a papal dogma; next, its waxing growth; and at last, after the lapse of centuries, its full development and maturity.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
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Life Science: Plants
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