germinate
英语
[编辑]词源
[编辑]拉丁語 germinātus，germināre (“发芽”)的过去分词。
发音
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[编辑]germinate (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 germinates，現在分詞 germinating，簡單過去時和過去分詞 germinated)
- (不及物，植物學，農業) 发芽，萌芽
- 1631，Francis [Bacon]，“(please specify |century=I to X)”，Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […]，第3rd版，London： […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]，→OCLC：
- the Chalcites, which hath a Spirit that will put forth and germinate
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- 2014年4月5日，“Quite interesting: A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week; QI orchids you not”，The Daily Telegraph (Weekend)，第 W22 頁：
- 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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- 2014年12月23日，Olivia Judson，“The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”，The New York Times[1]，原文存檔於23 December 2014：
- […] 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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- (及物) 使...成长，产生
- 1913，Robert Barr，章號 5，Lord Stranleigh Abroad[2]：
- These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.
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近义词
[编辑]- ackerspyre (切斯特)
异序词
[编辑]意大利语
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[编辑]germinate
异序词
[编辑]拉丁语
[编辑]分词
[编辑]germināte
西班牙语
[编辑]动词
[编辑]germinate