different between germination vs burgeon

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

germination (countable and uncountable, plural germinations)

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

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with gemination.

Translations

French

Noun

germination f (plural germinations)

1. germination

English

Etymology

From Middle English burjon, burioun (“shoot, bud”), from Anglo-Norman burjun, burgeon, burgon (compare Old French burjon (“a bud”)), from Old Frankish *burjo (“sprout, offshoot, descendant”), from Proto-Germanic *burjô (“sprout, descendant, offshoot”), from Proto-Germanic *burjan? (“to raise up”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-, *b?r?- (“to bear”). Compare Old High German burjan, burien, burren (“to push up, raise”), Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”), Old English byre (“child, son, descendant”), Albanian buron (“sprout, spring, gush out”). More at bear.

Alternate etymology derives Old French burjon (“bud”) from Vulgar Latin *burrionem, accusative of *burrio, from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff”) (presumably from the down covering certain buds).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??.d???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??.d???n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d??n

Noun

burgeon (plural burgeons)

1. (obsolete) A bud, sprout, shoot.

Translations

Verb

burgeon (third-person singular simple present burgeons, present participle burgeoning, simple past and past participle burgeoned)

1. (intransitive) To grow or expand.

   Gradually, the town burgeoned into a thriving city.

   Synonyms: blossom, expand, grow, sprout

2. (intransitive) To swell to the point of bursting.
3. (intransitive, archaic) Of plants, to bloom, bud.

   Synonyms: blossom, bud, green, sprout

Derived terms

• burgeoning

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