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[ US /ˈspɹaʊt/ ]
[ UK /spɹˈa‍ʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
  2. a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
VERB
  1. put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
    the plant sprouted early this year
  2. produce buds, branches, or germinate
    the potatoes sprouted

How To Use sprout In A Sentence

  • In enation the new growth projects from a previously formed organ after it has attained to considerable size, or even after its ordinary proportions have been attained, and it sprouts out from the beginning in Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • BUY Choose purple sprouting broccoli that is fresh, with firm stalks. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the north where the warm season is not long enough to allow the autumn sprout to lignify sufficiently for bearing the rigors of winter it is killed. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.
  • People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns.
  • He slapped Sprout on the rump to get her going; then he said the first thing that came into his head. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • Garnish with microgreens, oils (orange, lemon and pine), edible flowers and/or sprouts of your choice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Medieval towers sprout hither and yon, frontages on the titchy streets have a stately aspect, and from the esplanade by the cathedral, the landscape looks mildly Tuscan.
  • The vitex, too, can produce water sprouts, or vigorous vertical growths from larger branches and root suckers from the base of the tree.
  • Here the hedges are best, not trimmed in brutal tidiness but rampant with hip-laden roses and garlanded by vivid bryony berries; and sprouting pithy wands of elder, strong grey spears of ash and angular spikes of black berried sloes.
  • In the middle of the white wormy thing, which fills the entire shell, is a green blob about the size of a small sprout.
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