sprout
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1.8
- noun
- /spraʊt/
:
brote
- After just three days, we have sprouts and the plants are thriving.
- young sprouts
- bean sprouts
- seeds and sprouts
And Juji Mufu like adds sprouts to every meal.
- And Juji Mufu like adds sprouts to every meal.
- But turns out the safest way to get sprouts is to grow it at home.
- A little sprout grew out of a gumnut.
- So I started making Brussels sprouts, but I started making them with bacon.
- Why is baby broccoli or broccoli sprouts way better than like broccoli in particular?
- I eat myself, you know, my broccoli sprouts and and all that stuff.
- So we've just had this tragic comic bean sprouts on a human face.
Examples
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After the rain, tiny sprouts began to push through the soil in the flowerbed.
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The wild apple sprout was planted in the garden to grow one.
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A little sprout grew out of a gumnut.
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The tree was then just a little sprout next to a sacred clay pot.
Academic text (2001) -
The next morning all the sprouts were gone, as if somebody had gobbled them up.
Fiction book (1999) -
On recently deforested land, seeds wait in soil and new sprouts grow from old stumps.
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The garden is full of green sprouts that will soon turn into healthy plants.
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We were excited to see the first sprout of our new vegetable garden appearing in early spring.
Synonyms
31
3.0
A new branch or stem that grows from a plant
20
2.8
A young plant that grows from a seed before it has adult leaves
4
1.8
A young thin shoot from a bean eaten as a vegetable
1
9.3
A shoot that grows from the base of a grass plant and can become a new plant
A seed or spore that is starting to grow
A young tender shoot that grows from a plant base
A small shoot that grows from the base of a plant and can form a new stem
New shoots that grow from a plant's base
A very young small plant that grows from a parent plant rather than from a seed
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Sprout originally named a small green 'shoot' that pushes up from the ground. That's why a sprout means a young plant growth.