germinated

Verb

germinate (third-person singular simple present germinates, present participle germinating, simple past and past participle germinated)

1. (intransitive) Of a seed, to begin to grow, to sprout roots and leaves.
   • the Chalcites, which hath a Spirit that will put forth and germinate1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
2. (transitive) To cause to grow; to produce.
   • These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad