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单词 sprout
释义
sprout
(sprt )
Word forms: sprouts , sprouting , sprouted
1. verb
When plants, vegetables, or seeds sprout, they produce new shoots or leaves.
It only takes a few days for beans to sprout. [VERB]
Synonyms: germinate, bud, shoot, push  
2. verb
When leaves, shoots, or plants sprout somewhere, they grow there.
Leaf-shoots were beginning to sprout on the hawthorn. [VERB preposition]
Birch trees sprouted from the rubble and grew into a dense young wood. [VERB preposition]
Synonyms: grow, develop, blossom, ripen  
3. verb [no passive]
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 noun]
4. verb
If you sprout beans or seeds, you make them grow small shoots before eating them. You usually do this by soaking them in water.
When you sprout seeds their nutritional content increases. [VERB noun]
Sprouted beans only need to be cooked for 1-2 minutes. [VERB-ed]
5. verb [no passive]
If something such as hair sprouts from a person or animal, or if they sprout it, it grows on them.
She has little wire-rimmed glasses and whiskers sprouting from her chin. [VERB preposition]
Kevin is sprouting a few grey hairs. [VERB noun]
6. ergative verb
If a large number of things have appeared or developed somewhere, you can say that they have sprouted there or that the place has sprouted them.
More than a million satellite dishes have sprouted on homes across the country. [VERB adverb/preposition]
Since its first shop was opened in 1976, it has sprouted outlets in 39 countries. [VERB noun]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: appear, emerge, turn up, show up [informal]  
7. countable noun [usually plural]
Sprouts are vegetables that look like tiny cabbages. They are also called brussels sprouts.
8. countable noun [usually plural]
Sprouts are new shoots on plants.
After eleven days of growth the number of sprouts was counted.
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Translations:
Chinese: 发芽植物、蔬菜、种子, 植物、蔬菜、种子
Japanese: 芽を出す,
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