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sprout
has definitions from the fields of chemistry,food,botany
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[ verb ] produce buds, branches, or germinate; of plants
Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)He smiled and stuck a large finger with white hairs sprouting on_it into his ear as though that might help . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Calloused fingers , caressed only by the smoothness of polished rosaries , had swayed excitedly beneath puckered chins where tiny black hairs sprouted , never to be tweezed away . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (botany) any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
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[ verb ] put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
Synonyms Examples "the plant sprouted early this year" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
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