Definition of Germinative

1. a. Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop.

Definition of Germinative

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to germination ¹

2. Adjective. Having the ability to germinate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Germinative

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Germinative

1. Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. Germinative spot, Germinative vesicle. Same as Germinal spot, Germinal vesicle, under Germinal. Origin: Cf. F. Germinatif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Germinative

germinal mosaicism
germinal mutation
germinal pole
germinal rod
germinal streak
germinally
germinant
germinants
germinate
germinated
germinates
germinating
germination
germinations
germinative (current term)
germinative layer
germinative layer of nail
germine
germine acetates
germiness
germinesses
germing
germinoma
germins
germiparity
germless
germlike
germline
germlines

Literary usage of Germinative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seeding and Planting: A Manual for the Guidance of Forestry Students by James William Toumey (1916)
"Tests made to determine germinative capacity are seldom continued until all ... Bates states that in District 2 germinative capacity is measured in twice ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1919)
"In the -hotter zone, the germinative temperature has been near the surface, ... The germinative temperature areas can be seen readily in this micrograph, ..."

3. The Maturation of the Egg of the Mouse by Joseph Abraham Long, Edward Laurens Mark (1911)
"germinative VESICLE. It is agreed by all investigators that the germinative ... 2I) believed that by the rupture of the germinative vesicle the nucleolus ..."

4. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"during a germinative period of only 48 hours. That moisture is liberated ... Testing the germinative Capacity of Seeds The loss in crop and labor when poor ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
""Note on the Influence of very Low Temperatures on the germinative Power of Seeds." By HORACE T. BROWN, FRS, ..."

6. Botany for Agricultural Students by John Nathan Martin (1919)
"germinative Processes Seeds need water, oxygen, and warmth in germination because upon these external factors the internal germinative processes depend. ..."

7. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"The scale of germinative capacity.—A lost habit with many inland plants.—The views of Goebel.—The shrinking in the course of ages of tropical swamp areas. ..."

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