🏛️ To divide classes 🪨 To form layers 🌱 To treat seeds

to stratify

7.9

Place seeds in cold, moist layers of sand or soil to help them grow

verb
/ˈstrætɪfaɪ/

Specialized

: estratificar

Species are stratified by drought tolerance and light demands.
stratify the seeds

Examples

To ensure better germination, you should stratify the seeds by layering them in moist sand.
These ratings were used to stratify affected participants instead of sentence intelligibility scores.

Academic text (2012)
This, of course, brings up that today we can either start honestly discussing and working on a good society that will last for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, or we can take the easy way out and stratify.

Blog text (23)
That's been in the fridge cold stratifying we also have here.
Gardeners often stratify seeds by placing them in a refrigerator to mimic winter conditions.
To promote growth, it's important to stratify certain types of seeds before planting them.

Surface Forms

stratify infinitive

stratified past

stratified past participle

stratifying present participle

stratifies third person singular

Morphology

stratify = stratum (transparent) = stratum + ify

The horticultural practice of placing seeds in layers or between materials follows the literal sense 'make into layers', derived from 'stratum' + '-ify'.

Etymology

Stratify comes from the Latin stratum meaning 'layer', and gardeners use this idea by placing seeds between layers of soil or sand. So to stratify seeds is to store them in layers to help them start to grow.