Fertilization vs. Germination

Fertilizationnoun

The act or process of rendering fertile.

Fertilizationnoun

The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable gametes; especially, the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants

Fertilizationnoun

The act of applying fertilizer to soil.

Fertilizationnoun

The act or process of rendering fertile.

Fertilizationnoun

The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.

Fertilizationnoun

creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant

Fertilizationnoun

making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure

Germinationnoun

The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.

Germinationnoun

The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.

Germinationnoun

the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow

Germinationnoun

the origin of some development;

Germination

Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or spore. The term is applied to the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, such as the spores of fungi, ferns, bacteria, and the growth of the pollen tube from the pollen grain of a seed plant.