51Թ

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germinative

[ jur-muh-ney-tiv, -muh-nuh-tiv ]

adjective

  1. capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • m·Բt· adverb
  • ԴDz·m·Բt adjective
  • ·m·Բt adjective
  • re·m·Բt· adverb
  • ܲ·m·Բt adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of germinative1

First recorded in 1700–10; germinate + -ive
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More and more, as that initiating episode of what is sometimes called postmodernism recedes into history, it looks to be one of 20th century art’s finest, most germinative hours.

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The wind’s mythologically sexual aspect can be aggressive, relentless and even, in some legends, germinative.

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Some of these names, it may be observed, are expressive not only of their primordial character, but also of a germinative or productive power.

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Society is the germinative power in the common-place child, who gives out his sparks only under external blows.

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The egg of the Star-fish, when first formed, is a transparent, spherical body, enclosing the germinative vesicle and dot.

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