Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun germination

2 senses of germination

Sense 1
germination, sprouting -- (the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow)
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")

Sense 2
germination -- (the origin of some development; "the germination of their discontent")
       => origin, origination, inception -- (an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events)