Sprout

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  • intransitive verb. To begin to grow; give off shoots or buds.
  • intransitive verb. To emerge and develop rapidly.
  • intransitive verb. To allow or cause to come forth and grow.
  • noun. Young plant growth, such as a bud or shoot.
  • noun. Something resembling or suggestive of a sprout, as in rapid growth.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The young shoots of plants such as alfalfa and soybean, usually eaten raw.
  • noun. Brussels sprouts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Specifically, used to designate the action of silver during solidification. The molten silver beneath the thin solid crust forces up the crust with explosive violence and a part of it solidifies in the form of trees or sprouts. This action is attributed to the oxygen absorbed by the silver while above the melting-point, and seeking to escape at the point of solidification of the metal. Also vegetate.
  • noun. A shoot of a plant.
  • noun. Specifically plural Young coleworts.
  • To shoot forth, as a bud from a seed or stock; begin to grow; spring: said of a young vegetable growth, or, by extension, of animal growth.
  • To put forth shoots; bear buds.
  • To spring up; grow upward.
  • To spread into ramifications.
  • To produce or afford by sprouting; grow: as, to sprout antlers; to sprout a mustache.
  • To remove sprouts from: as, to sprout potatoes.
  • noun. In forestry, a tree which has grown from a stump or root. A shoot is a sprout which has not reached a height of three feet.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cause to sprout.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of sprouts.
  • noun. The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
  • noun. Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
  • noun. See under Brussels.
  • intransitive verb. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
  • intransitive verb. To shoot into ramifications.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
  • noun. A child.
  • noun. A Brussels sprout.
  • noun. An edible germinated seed.
  • verb. To grow, where the initial state is a seed; to germinate.
  • verb. To cause to grow from a seed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. produce buds, branches, or germinate
  • noun. any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
  • noun. a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
  • verb. put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
  • Word Usage
    "One: eastern redcedar doesn't sprout from a stump like, say, locust."
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    acquire  develop  get  grow  produce  
    Rhyme
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    Kraut  Redoubt  about  all-out  bout  
    Same Context
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    avocado  beet  broccoli  cabbage  chard  
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    verb-form