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germination
Overview of noun germination
The noun germination has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. germination, sprouting -- (the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow)
2. germination -- (the origin of some development; "the germination of their discontent")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun germination
2 senses of germination
Sense 1
germination, sprouting
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
germination
=> origin, origination, inception
=> beginning
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun germination
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun germination
2 senses of germination
Sense 1
germination, sprouting
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
Sense 2
germination
=> origin, origination, inception
Antonyms of noun germination
Member Holonyms of noun germination
Substance Holonyms of noun germination
Part Holonyms of noun germination
Member Meronyms of noun germination
Substance Meronyms of noun germination
Part Meronyms of noun germination
Meronyms of noun germination
Holonyms of noun germination
Attributes of noun germination
Derived Forms of noun germination
2 senses of germination
Sense 1
germination, sprouting
RELATED TO>(verb) germinate#3
=> germinate
RELATED TO>(verb) germinate#1
=> shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout
Sense 2
germination
RELATED TO>(verb) germinate#3
=> germinate
Domain of noun germination
Domain Terms of noun germination
Familiarity of noun germination
germination used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun germination
2 senses of germination
Sense 1
germination, sprouting
> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> culture
=> amelogenesis
=> angiogenesis
=> apposition
=> auxesis
=> blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
=> cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis
=> cohesion
=> cytogenesis, cytogeny
=> foliation, leafing
=> fructification
=> gametogenesis
=> germination, sprouting
=> infructescence
=> intussusception
=> juvenescence
=> life cycle
=> masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation
=> morphogenesis
=> myelinization, myelinisation
=> neurogenesis
=> palingenesis, recapitulation
=> proliferation
=> psychogenesis
=> psychogenesis
=> psychomotor development
=> psychosexual development
=> rooting
=> suppression
=> teething, dentition, odontiasis
=> teratogenesis
=> vegetation
Sense 2
germination
> origin, origination, inception
=> germination
=> cause
=> preliminary, overture, prelude
=> emanation, rise, procession
Meronyms of noun germination
2 senses of germination
Sense 1
germination, sprouting
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
HAS PART: gastrulation
Holonyms of noun germination
Grep of noun germination
germination
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