See germinate on Wiktionary
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"text": "Orchids rely on fungi to reproduce. Their tiny seeds don't have any on-board nutrients (like beans and apples) and will not germinate until they are infected by a symbiotic fungus which supplies them with food. Known as a protocorm, this tiny orchid-fungus ball grows, turns green and eventually starts to photosynthesise.",
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"ref": "2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2014-12-23:",
"text": "[…] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.",
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"roman": "namā",
"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
"word": "نَمَا"
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"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
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"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
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"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
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"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
"word": "xerminar"
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"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
"word": "ამოსვლა"
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"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
"word": "აღმოცენება"
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"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
"word": "𐌺𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌽"
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"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
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"sense": "sprout or produce buds",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "cause to grow",
"word": "產生 /产生"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "xíngchéng",
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"word": "形成"
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