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单词 sprout
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sprout
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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 FAMILY
sprout: sprouted, sprouting, sprouts+/sprouting: sproutings
USAGE EXAMPLES
In 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 sprout
sprouted 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
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shoot
a new branch
bud
a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
sucker
a shoot arising from a plant's roots
tiller
a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
leaf bud
a bud from which leaves (but not flowers) develop
flower bud
a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop
mixed bud
a bud yielding both leaves and flowers
plant organ
a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus
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