| 单词 | sprout |
| 释义 | sprout (once / 1314 pages) vn A sprout is a small growth on a plant — a little new bud. Other things can sprout too: kids are constantly sprouting (growing). The key thing to think of when you're trying to remember the meaning of sprout is growth — as a noun, a sprout is a new growth of a plant, and as a verb, to sprout means to grow. Sprouting mainly applies to height and to the young, whether you're talking about plants, people, or things. An older person who gains fifty pounds is growing but not sprouting. WORD FAMILYsprout: sprouted, sprouting, sprouts+/sprouting: sproutings USAGE EXAMPLESIn winter that means lots of carrots, baby brussels sprouts and apples. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) New venture-capital arms of large corporations seem to sprout up every few months, enabling their executives to mingle and hunt for partnerships and acquisitions. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) Available at Sprouts and through home or office delivery. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v produce buds, branches, or germinate the potatoes sprouted Syn|Hyper bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud germinate cause to grow or sprout grow increase in size by natural process 2v put forth and grow sprouts or shoots the plant sprouted early this year Syn|Hyper stock acquire, develop, get, grow, produce come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) 3n a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) Hypo|Hyper bean sprout any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans alfalfa sproutsprouted alfalfa seeds green, greens, leafy vegetable any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables 4n any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud Hypo|Hyper shoot a new branch buda swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals suckera shoot arising from a plant's roots tillera shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass leaf buda bud from which leaves (but not flowers) develop flower buda bud from which only a flower or flowers develop mixed buda bud yielding both leaves and flowers plant organ a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus |
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