| NOUN | process | sprouting, germination | the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow |
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| Sounds | spraw'tihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | The process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow. | |
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| Synonym | germination | |
| Broader | growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically |
| Spanish | germinación | |
| Catalan | germinació | |
| Verbs | sprout | put forth and grow sprouts / sprouts or shoots |
| sprout | produce buds, branches, or germinate | |
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