germination

n. process of germinating; development; process of sprouting or budding; growth

Germination is the process where growth emerges from a period of dormancy. The most common example of germination is the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm. However, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, for example the growth of hyphae from fungal spores, is also germination. In a more general sense, germination can imply anything expanding into greater being from a small existence or germ.
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n. germination, process of germinating; development; process of sprouting or budding

(n.)
The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
  

Noun
1. the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
(synonym) sprouting
(hypernym) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
(derivation) germinate
2. the origin of some development; "the germination of their discontent"
(hypernym) origin, origination, inception
(derivation) germinate