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sprout
sprout is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
- 2transitive verb
To shoot into ramifications.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
- 4transitive verb
To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
- 5intransitive verb
The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
- 6intransitive verb
Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
- 7noun
a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
- 8noun
any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
- 9verb
put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
"the plant sprouted early this year"
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- 10verb
produce buds, branches, or germinate
"the potatoes sprouted"
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