intransitive. Also figurative. To sprout or germinate.

intransitive. Of a plant: to produce many shoots; to grow, flourish; to spread. Also in extended use. Cf. wride, n.

intransitive. To shoot, sprout. Obsolete.

intransitive. Of seed, or a crop grown from seed: to germinate after being sown; to produce a shoot. Frequently modified by well. Cf. to come up…

intransitive. Of seeds, grain, etc.: To send forth or develop shoots, esp. the first shoot or acrospire; to germinate, sprout. Also with out. Now rare…

intransitive. To sprout; (of a seed) to germinate. Cf. chip, v.1 7, chit, v.1 1.

Of a tree, plant, seed, etc. Often with adverbs, as up, out, forth. intransitive. To put out new shoots, buds, or other growth; to bud; (of a seed)…

intransitive. To produce new growth; to germinate (in various senses). Occasionally also transitive. Chiefly in figurative contexts and figurative.

intransitive. To produce new buds or shoots; to germinate (germinate, v. 2). Chiefly in figurative contexts and figurative.

intransitive. British regional (originally and chiefly Scottish). (Of a seed) to break open, to germinate, to sprout; (of a bud or plant) to…

intransitive. Of a tree: To shoot or sprout. rare.

intransitive. Of a plant: to bud; to blossom; to come into leaf; = to put out 12c at phrasal verbs 1.

To put forth buds or shoots, as a plant; to germinate. †Formerly often with adverbs, forth, out (const. with, into); also transferred of an animal…

intransitive. Of corn, etc.: to sprout, germinate. Also with out.

intransitive. Of corn, grass, etc.: To send out shoots, sprout, tiller. ? Now only Scottish.

intransitive. Of seed: To sprout, germinate.

To sprout.

intransitive. To be developed or produced as offspring; to spring up abundantly, multiply.

Pseudo-archaic f. sprout, v.1

intransitive. Of a plant: To shoot forth.

intransitive. Of a plant: to send out shoots or roots; to sprout, bud; to grow. Cf. to put forth 6a(a) at phrasal verbs 1, to put out 12c at…

intransitive. Of a seed or spore: to undergo germination (germination, n. 1a). In early use also: (of a plant, bud, etc.) to begin to grow; to…

intransitive. Of a plant: to sprout; to shoot. Obsolete.

intransitive. To shoot, sprout.

intransitive. To put forth stalks. rare.

intransitive. Of corn or other plants: To produce ‘tillers’ or side shoots from the root or base of the stem; also said of the shoots thus arising…

intransitive. To sprout, germinate; = braird, v.

Of corn: To sprout.

intransitive. Of a tree or plant: to bud; to blossom; to come into leaf.

Of a plant: To throw up young shoots or stems; of corn, grass, herbage, to throw out lateral shoots producing a thick head of stems or foliage. Also…

intransitive. To throw up suckers. Also occasionally passive, to be thrown up as a sucker.

To show signs of growth; to bud. rare.

intransitive. To stick or poke out or up, to project. Now chiefly of a plant or stem (cf. put, v. 6a(b)). Frequently with out, up.

intransitive. Of corn, etc.: To sprout, to appear above the ground.

intransitive. Of plants: To form or throw out fibres.

intransitive. Of a plant: To send out shoots; to shoot. Also transitive in causative sense.