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SPROUT definition: 1. to produce leaves, hair, or other new developing parts, or (of leaves, hair, and other…. Learn more.
The meaning of SPROUT is to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout. How to use sprout in a sentence.
noun. a shoot of a plant. a new growth from a germinating seed, or from a rootstock, tuber, bud, or the like. something resembling or suggesting a sprout, as in growth. a young person; youth. sprouts, the young shoots of alfalfa, soybeans, etc., eaten as a raw vegetable. Brussels sprout. sprout.
A sprout is a small growth on a plant — a little new bud. Other things can sprout too: kids are constantly sprouting (growing).
If something such as hair sprouts from a person or animal, or if they sprout it, it grows on them.
SPROUT meaning: 1. to produce leaves, hair, or other new developing parts, or (of leaves, hair, and other…. Learn more.
1. (Botany) (of a plant, seed, etc) to produce (new leaves, shoots, etc) 2. (often foll by: up) to begin to grow or develop: new office blocks are sprouting up all over the city. n. 3. (Botany) a newly grown shoot or bud. 4. something that grows like a sprout. 5. (Plants) See Brussels sprout.
SPROUT definition: 1. If a plant sprouts, or if it sprouts something, it begins to produce leaves, flowers, etc.: 2…. Learn more.
Definition of sprout verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Origin of sprout 1 Middle English spr ( o ) uten, Old English -sprūtan, in āsproten (past participle; see a- 3 ); cognate with Middle Dutch sprūten, German spriessen to sprout; akin to Greek speírein to scatter; (noun) Middle English; compare Middle Dutch, Middle Low German sprute
