germinates是什么意思？

germinates

• n. （使）发芽( germinate的名词复数 )；
• v. （使）发芽( germinate的第三人称单数 )；

例句

• Water Chestnut germinates and grows again. 冬天枯萎了的马蹄都再次萌芽生长.
• Once the seed germinates very carefully remove it from the sand, vermiculite, or burlap bags. 种子一旦发芽后,小心从沙地 、 蛭石或者粗布麻袋把它拿走.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• V-ERG
  （使）发芽；（使）开始生长；（使）萌芽
  If a seed germinates or if it is germinated, it starts to grow.
  例句
  Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so... 有一些种子发芽快，所以差不多每天得察看一下。 First, the researchers germinated the seeds. 研究人员首先让种子发芽。
• VERB
  （想法、计划或感觉）形成，产生
  If an idea, plan, or feeling germinates, it comes into existence and begins to develop.
  例句
  He wrote to Eliot about a 'big book' that was germinating in his mind. 他写信告诉埃利奥特他脑海中正在酝酿的一本“巨著”。