sprouting

sprout

S0674900 (sprout)v. sprout·ed, sprout·ing, sprouts v.intr.1. To begin to grow; give off shoots or buds.2. To emerge and develop rapidly: businesses that sprouted along the highway.v.tr. To allow or cause to come forth and grow: He sprouted a mustache.n.1. Young plant growth, such as a bud or shoot.2. Something resembling or suggestive of a sprout, as in rapid growth: "a tall blond sprout of a boy" (Anne Tyler).3. sproutsa. The young shoots of plants such as alfalfa and soybean, usually eaten raw.b. Brussels sprouts.

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[Middle English spruten, from Old English -sprūtanin āsprūtan, to sprout forth); see sper- in Indo-European roots.]

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sprouting - the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to growgerminationgrowing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"