Germate

Germate: verb. To grow germs on purpose. Germing is very often conducted in laboratories around the world, especially to research diseases, but it is also very common in regular households. Here we can find germation in nasal cavities, on mouldy bread, behind cabinets and in beer bottles. One must be very careful when germating so as not to germate something unexpected and potentially dangerous. There was a case of a 60-year old man from Norwich who successfully germated Salmonella in his own bowl of petunias. This attracted the attention of the local council and since then germition has been banned in Norfolk.