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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPROUT, v.i. [G.]
1. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots. A grain that sprouts in ordinary temperature in ten days, may by an augmentation of heat be made to sprout in forty eight hours. The stumps of trees often sprout, and produce a new forest. Potatoes will sprout and produce a crop, although pared and deprived all their buds or eyes.
2. To shoot into ramifications.
Vitriol is apt to sprout with moisture.
3. To grow, like shoots of plants.
And on the ashes sprouting plumes appear.
SPROUT, n.
1. The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed or from the stump or from the root of a plant or tree. The sprouts of the cane, in Jamaica are called ratoons.
2. A shoot from the end of a branch. The young shoots of shrubs are called sprouts, and in the forest often furnish browse of cattle.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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) v
1: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout]
2: put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year" [syn: sprout, stock]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English spruten, from Old English -spr?tan; akin to Old High German spriozan to sprout, Lithuanian sprausti to squeeze, thrust Date: 13th century intransitive verb 1. to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout 2. to send out new growth transitive verb to send forth or up ; cause to develop ; grow II. noun Date: 13th century 1. a. shoot 1a; especially a young shoot (as from a seed or root) b. plural (1) chiefly British brussels sprout 2 (2) edible sprouts especially from recently germinated seeds (as of alfalfa or mung beans) 2. something resembling a sprout: as a. a young person b. scion 2

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 tr. put forth, produce (shoots, hair, etc.) (has sprouted a moustache). 2 intr. begin to grow, put forth shoots. 3 intr. spring up, grow to a height. --n. 1 a shoot of a plant. 2 = BRUSSELS SPROUT. Etymology: OE sprutan (unrecorded) f. WG

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sprout Sprout, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sprouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sprouting.] [OE. sprouten, spruten; akin to OFries. spr?ta, AS. spre['o]tan, D. spruiten, G. spriessen, Sw. spruta to squirt, to spout. Cf. Sprit, v. t. & i., Sprit a spar, Spout, v. t., Spurt.] 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.] --Bacon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sprout Sprout, n. [Cf. AS. sprote a sprout, sprig; akin to Icel. sproti, G. sprosse. See Sprout, v. i.] 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. --Johnson. Brussels sprouts (Bot.) See under Brussels.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sprouts, sprouting, sprouted) 1. When plants, vegetables, or seeds sprout, they produce new shoots or leaves. It only takes a few days for beans to sprout. VERB: V 2. When leaves, shoots, or plants sprout somewhere, they grow there. Leaf-shoots were beginning to sprout on the hawthorn... VERB: V prep 3. If a garden or other area of land sprouts plants, they start to grow there. ...the garden, which had had time to sprout a shocking collection of weeds. VERB: no passive, V n 4. If something such as hair sprouts from a person or animal, or if they sprout it, it grows on them. She is very old now, with little, round, wire-rimmed glasses and whiskers sprouting from her chin... As well as sprouting a few grey hairs, Kevin seems to be suffering the occasional memory loss. VERB: no passive, V prep, V n 5. Sprouts are vegetables that look like tiny cabbages. They are also called brussels sprouts. N-COUNT: usu pl 6. Sprouts are new shoots on plants. After eleven days of growth the number of sprouts was counted. N-COUNT: usu pl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. 1. Shoot, germinate, vegetate, push, grow, pullulate, put forth, shoot forth, burst forth, bourgeon. 2. Ramify, shoot into branches. II. n. 1. Acrospire, plumule. 2. Shoot, ratoon, young branch.

Moby Thesaurus

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