To cause to sprout or germinate; to make something begin to grow from a seed.
From the prefix en- (causing to be) plus germinate (from Latin germinare, to sprout). The word combines the causative prefix with the biological process of seed activation.
This word reveals how English uses the 'en-' prefix like a linguistic magic wand—tacking it onto verbs transforms them into causative actions. You don't just germinate; you engerminate something else into existence!
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