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germinative, a.|ˈdʒɜːmɪneɪtɪv|
[f. L. germināre: see germinate v. and -ative. Cf. F. germinatif, -ive.]
a. Of or belonging to germination.
b. ‘Having power to bud or sprout, or to develop’ (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1854).
1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 155 Any Agent, indu'd with a germinative Power. Ibid. 230 Among the common Water there is another which I call germinative, for Plants. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 865 The blastoderm or germinative membrane. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 67 note, The germinative power of a seed..is destroyed by fire. 1883American VII. 89 The germinative portion of the egg.
fig.1821Blackw. Mag. X. 334 [It] could not fail to weaken the germinative principles of popular disaffection. 1857I. Taylor World of Mind 379 The ‘Social Institution’ by which such usages are sanctioned is itself a crime, and it will be germinative of crimes. 1865Reader 18 Mar. 309/1 Any vital or germinative truth. |