sprout as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
- 2
sprout
noun
1 sprout
Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud.
Roget 167:
posterity,
progeny,
breed,
issue,
offspring,
brood,
litter,
seed,
farrow,
spawn,
spat;
family,
grandchildren,
heirs;
great-grandchild.
child,
son,
daughter;
butcha†;
bantling,
scion;
acrospire†,
plumule†,
shoot,
sprout,
olive-branch,
sprit†,
branch;
off-shoot,
off-set;
ramification;
descendant;
heir,
heiress;
heir-apparent,
heir-presumptive;
chip off the old block;
heredity;
rising generation.
straight descent,
sonship†,
line,
lineage,
filiation†,
primogeniture.
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Dutch: scheut, kiemgroente, spruit
Polish: kiełek
2 sprout
A newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed).
verb
1 sprout
Produce buds, branches, or germinate:
— The potatoes sprouted.
synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud.
Roget 194:
become larger
etc.
(large)
etc.
192;
expand,
widen,
enlarge,
extend,
grow,
increase,
incrassate†,
swell,
gather;
fill out;
deploy,
take open order,
dilate,
stretch,
distend,
spread;
mantle,
wax;
grow up,
spring up;
bud,
bourgeon [Fr.],
shoot,
sprout,
germinate,
put forth,
vegetate,
pullulate,
open,
burst forth;
gain flesh,
gather flesh;
outgrow;
spread like wildfire,
overrun.
be larger than;
surpass
etc.
(be superior)
33.
render larger
etc.
(large)
etc.
192;
expand,
spread,
extend,
aggrandize,
distend,
develop,
amplify,
spread out,
widen,
magnify,
rarefy,
inflate,
puff,
blow up,
stuff,
pad,
cram;
exaggerate;
fatten.
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Roget 35:
increase,
augment,
add to,
enlarge;
dilate
etc.
(expand)
194;
grow,
wax,
get ahead.
gain strength;
advance;
run up,
shoot up;
rise;
ascend
etc.
305;
sprout
etc.
194.
aggrandize;
raise,
exalt;
deepen,
heighten;
strengthen;
intensify,
enhance,
magnify,
redouble;
aggravate,
exaggerate;
exasperate,
exacerbate;
add fuel to the flame,
oleum addere camino [Lat.],
superadd
etc.
(add)
37;
spread
etc.
(disperse)
73.
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Dutch: botten, kiemen, ontkiemen, punten, schieten, uitbotten, uitlopen, uitschieten
2 sprout
Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots:
— The plant sprouted early this year.
synonym: stock.
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