germinant

1. not comparableThat germinates.

   […] the days had seemed saturated with the fecundity of physical health and fine weather, and it had been almost as if my own germinant aliveness were interfused with some sacrificial rite which was to celebrate the harvest.

   1930, Siegfried Sassoon, chapter 3, in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, section 6, page 164

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   […] diuine Prophecies, being of the nature of their Author, with whom a thousande yeares are but as one day, and therefore are not fulfilled punctually, at once, but haue springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages,

   1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, page 16

   […] Earth’s dearest daughter, the firm / In footing, the stately of stem; / Unshaken though elements lour; / A warrior heart unquelled; / Mirror of Earth, and guide / To the Holies from sense withheld: / Reason, man’s germinant fruit.

   1888, George Meredith, “A Faith on Trial”, in A Reading of Earth, pages 92-93

plural germinants

1. A germinating plant.