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US
/ˈspɹaʊt/
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[ UK /spɹˈaʊt/ ]
[ UK /spɹˈaʊt/ ]
NOUN
- any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
- a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
VERB
-
put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
the plant sprouted early this year -
produce buds, branches, or germinate
the potatoes sprouted
How To Use sprout In A Sentence
- In the middle of the white wormy thing, which fills the entire shell, is a green blob about the size of a small sprout.
- They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
- My green onion plant, that had sprouted six inches, suddenly wilted and died.
- By the 1960s, whites too had become avid fans of township jazz, which had sprouted into kwela's instrumental music and mbaqanga, a vocal jazz style.
- They sowed potatoes, carrots, beetroot, lettuce, scallions, onion sets, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and celery.
- Chitting describes the process whereby seeds are placed between layers of damp kitchen towel and allowed to sprout prior to planting.
- Each window sprouted a flag and blue metal mesh shutter. The Tribes Triumphant
- As you try to lever them into position, they seem to suddenly sprout extra limbs to match the extra decibels they are producing.
- Brussels sprouts will be back - and in a blender. The Sun
- Sprouting grains by soaking them first increases the amount of enzymes and neutralises the antinutrient phytic acid. Times, Sunday Times