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sprout
[ sprout ]
verb (used without object)
- to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
- (of a seed or plant) to put forth buds or shoots.
- to develop or grow quickly:
a boy awkwardly sprouting into manhood.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to sprout.
- to remove sprouts from:
Sprout and boil the potatoes.
noun
- a shoot of a plant.
- a new growth from a germinating seed, or from a rootstock, tuber, bud, or the like.
- something resembling or suggesting a sprout, as in growth.
- a young person; youth.
- sprouts,
- the young shoots of alfalfa, soybeans, etc., eaten as a raw vegetable.
sprout
/ spraʊt /
verb
- (of a plant, seed, etc) to produce (new leaves, shoots, etc)
- introften foll byup to begin to grow or develop
new office blocks are sprouting up all over the city
noun
- a newly grown shoot or bud
- something that grows like a sprout
- See Brussels sprout
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Other Words From
- non·sprouting adjective
- re·sprout verb
- under·sprout noun
- under·sprout verb (used without object)
- un·sprouted adjective
- un·sprouting adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sprout1
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Example Sentences
Want to shoot lasers from your eyes, or see wings sprout from your arms?
In the garden, giant mushroom sculptures sprout from the ground and wire spider webs hang between trees.
I particularly believed that from the ashes of the unrest we could work to sprout new hope for our community.
A sprout just showing will endure several nights' freezing if there is some warm sun in the day-time.
A long sprout is liable to be broken off in sowing, or killed by cold, after it is in the ground.
"Well, if Willis Morgan's been misjudged, then I'm really an angel all ready to sprout wings," observed the clerk.
Said I not, he holdeth, as yet, but the dead letter—but the seed which is sown shall one day sprout and quicken?
"I'm only a boy sprout," said Roy, his wonted buoyancy persisting.
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