germinate

germinate is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
2. transitive verb. To cause to sprout.
3. verb. produce buds, branches, or germinate

   "the potatoes sprouted"

   Synonyms: bourgeon, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud

4. verb. cause to grow or sprout

   "the plentiful rain germinated my plants"

5. verb. work out

   "We have developed a new theory of evolution"

   Synonyms: develop, evolve

Synonyms

bourgeon, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud, develop, evolve

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in germinate:

germanite, gramenite, mangerite, reteaming

Common word forms

germinated, germinates, germinating

Words from these letters

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