germinator

Plant growth initiator

A germinator is a device, container, or environment designed to promote the sprouting of seeds.

These range from simple trays with moisture-retaining lids used by home gardeners to sophisticated climate-controlled chambers in agricultural research.

The term can also refer to a person who germinates seeds or, more figuratively, someone who initiates or develops ideas: She was the germinator of the whole project.

seeding

seedling

Recently sprouted young plant

sowing · sower · planter · nursery · hydroponics · scarification · stratification · broadcast · drill · transplanting

equipment

tray

Shallow portable platform

humidity · perlite · vermiculite · peat · rockwool · LED · fluorescent · timer · ventilation · reservoir

growth

sprout

New plant emergence

rooting · flourishing · blossoming · seedling · shoot · root · leaf · stem · vigor · vitality

innovation

incubator

Controlled warming enclosure

originator · founder · pioneer · ideation · concept · prototype · launch · accelerator · venture · breakthrough

Opposites
growth process role

germinatorherbicide

Vegetation-destroying chemical

desiccant · sterilizer · defoliant · weed killer

lifecycle stage function

germinatorharvester

Crop-collecting machine

thresher · composter · incinerator · chipper · mulcher

INITIATION VS. TERMINATION (metaphorical)

germinatorterminator

One who ends things

extinguisher · suppressor · killer · ender · stifler

Phrases
Family

germinate, germination, germinating, germinated, germinates, germinations

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G