Relating to or characteristic of the process of germination.
Formed from germination (from Latin germinatio) plus the adjectival suffix -al, which converts nouns to adjectives describing qualities or relationships.
The germinational phase is when plants are most vulnerable to disease and predators, which is why seed coats evolved to be so incredibly tough—they're literally armor for the germinating plant.
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