Definitions for sprout

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IPA: /spraʊt/

Sprout is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in sprout (oprstu).

Definitions for sprout

noun

1. a shoot of a plant.
2. a new growth from a germinating seed, or from a rootstock, tuber, bud, or the like.
3. something resembling or suggesting a sprout, as in growth.
4. a young person; youth.
5. sprouts. the young shoots of alfalfa, soybeans, etc., eaten as a raw vegetable. Brussels sprout.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to sprout.
2. to remove sprouts from:

verb (used without object)

1. to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
2. (of a seed or plant) to put forth buds or shoots.
3. to develop or grow quickly:

Origin of sprout

1150-1200; (v.) Middle English spr(o)uten, Old English -sprūtan, in āsproten (past participle; see a-³); cognate with Middle Dutch sprūten, German spriessen t

Examples for sprout

In the winter the seeds should be steeped in warm water, and the bag put in a place sufficiently hot to make them sprout.

The sprout divides into two, forming the beginning of the pair of lungs.

I particularly believed that from the ashes of the unrest we could work to sprout new hope for our community.

Chop off a tree, and it will sprout again; but root it out, and it is no more.

Seed are of good vitality if a large per cent of them will sprout.

The week passed by, and the old people saw that the pea had begun to sprout.

Boys git that way when they begin to sprout hair under their noses.

And the corn would not sprout, nor the beans, nor the maize, nor the lotus.

Only the acorn lay quiet in the ground and refused to sprout.

He stared at a cylinder which was beginning to sprout tentacles from the circle.