Sprout
To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
To shoot into ramifications.
To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
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.
Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
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Sprout Quotations
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.
Morihei Ueshiba
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
Robert Dale Owen
Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.
Kathy Valentine
Sprout Translations
sprout in Dutch is uitkomen, ontspruiten, ontluiken
sprout in Latin is surculus, pullulo, suboles
sprout in Spanish is brote
sprout in Swedish is gro, grodd, skott, spira
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