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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
- transitive verb. To shoot into ramifications.
- transitive verb. To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
- transitive verb. To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
- intransitive 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.
- intransitive verb. Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
- noun. a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
- noun. any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
- verb. put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
"the plant sprouted early this year"
- verb. produce buds, branches, or germinate
"the potatoes sprouted"
Synonyms
stock, bourgeon, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sprout:
Common word forms
sprouts, sprouted, sprouter, sproutful, sprouting
Words from these letters
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