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Sprout   /spraʊt/   Listen
verb
Sprout  v. t.  
1.
To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
2.
To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.


Sprout  v. i.  (past & past part. sprouted; pres. part. sprouting)  
1.
To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
2.
To shoot into ramifications. (Obs.)


noun
Sprout  n.  
1.
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.
2.
pl. Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
Brussels sprouts (Bot.) See under Brussels.





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"Sprout" Quotes from Famous Books



... sophomore dance a jig to the music of a dogwood sprout for throwing paper wads. I saw a junior compelled to stand on the dunce block, on one foot—(a la gander) for winking at his sweetheart in time of books, for failing to know his lessons, and for "various and sundry other ...
— Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales • Robert L. Taylor
... in good shape, but they won't sprout. That shows plain how much older these mummies are than the Egyptian ones, for the seeds found by them will sprout and grow, but these are too old—the life in the seeds is gone, as well as the life in the dead forms by ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley
... precipice is decked with variegated splendor. Trailing wreaths of scarlet flaunt from the summit downward; tufts of yellow-flowering shrubs and rose-bushes, with their reddened leaves and glossy seed-berries, sprout from each crevice; at every glance I detect some new light or shade of beauty, all contrasting with the stern gray rock. A rill of water trickles down the cliff and fills a little cistern near the base. I drain it at a draught, and find it fresh and pure. This recess ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... everywhere in May folks be plantin' corn, the time bein' the sign that frost is over and done with.' I nodded assent, and he continued: 'Now naterally there's lots of corn in ear and shelled and ground to meal that isn't planted, and along as when the kernels in the ground begins to swell and sprout, this other corn knows it and begins to heave and sweat, and if it isn't handled careful-like, and taken in the air and cooled, it'll take on all sorts of moulds and musts, and like as not turn useless. I holds it's just the same with folks,—when springtime comes ...
— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright
... After about ten months the men dig up the tubers, which in the meantime have grown larger, and cut away from them all the trailing green growth, and then hang the tubers up in the houses and emone, to let the new growing points sprout. Then in about another two months the men replant the smaller tubers, while the larger ones are retained ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson


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