sprout
[verb]
Synonyms: grow, bud, develop, shoot, spring

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I. sprout¹ /spraʊt/ verb
[Language: Old English; Origin: sprutan]

1. [intransitive and transitive] if vegetables, seeds, or plants sprout, they start to grow, producing shoots, buds, or leaves:
Move the pots outside when the seeds begin to sprout.
Trees were starting to sprout new leaves.

2. [intransitive] (also sprout up) to appear suddenly in large numbers:
Office blocks are sprouting up everywhere.

3. [intransitive and transitive] if something such as hair sprouts or if you sprout it, it starts to grow:
Jim seemed to have sprouted a beard.

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II. sprout² noun [countable]

1. especially British English a small green vegetable like a very small cabbage Synonym : brussels sprout

2. a new growth on a plant Synonym : shoot

3. [usually plural] American English an alfalfa seed which has grown a stem and is eaten

4. [usually plural] American English a beansprout

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