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A seed's way of betting its whole life on one good rainstorm.
means The process by which a seed, spore, or bud begins to sprout and grow into a living plant.
from From Latin germinare, 'to sprout,' rooted in germen meaning 'sprout, bud, or offshoot' — the same root that gives us 'germ,' back when that word simply meant the seed of something, long before it narrowed down to microbes.
- trigger
- water swells seed until coat splits open
- first move
- root emerges before shoot, always
- dormancy break
- some seeds wait decades for the right cue
- energy source
- seedling eats its own stored food reserves