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pregerminated

pregerminated adjective: germinated in advance of another procedure.

Adjective

pregerminated (not comparable)

  1. germinated in advance of another procedure
    • The same procedure was followed for the cold + seeding-depth stress experiment, except that the pregerminated seeds were planted at a depth of 10cm, grown at 25°C for 10d, then incubated at 10°C for 6, 24, and 96hr before harvesting leaf tissues.2015 August 1, “Analysis of Stress-Responsive Gene Expression in Cultivated and Weedy Rice Differing in Cold Stress Tolerance”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of pregerminated

From pre- + germinated.

Questions about pregerminated

What does pregerminated mean?
Pregerminated means germinated in advance of another procedure.
What part of speech is pregerminated?
Pregerminated is an adjective.

Words near pregerminated in the dictionary

  1. pregenual
  2. pregeological
  3. pregeometries
  4. pregeometry
  5. pregermarial
  6. pregerminated
  7. pregermination
  8. pregerminative
  9. pregestation
  10. pregestational
  11. pregestationally

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