Noun: sprout
| Singular | sprout |
| Plural | sprouts |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: seedling, chit
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Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!
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In our family we only eat sprouts once a year, at Christmas.
Nouns inflected like sprout
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English sproute, either from Middle English sprouten (“to sprout”) (see below); or from Middle Dutch sprute or Middle Low German sprûte (“sprout”), all related to Proto-West Germanic *spreutan. Doublet of spruit. See: Middle English Nouns '
sproute'.
Verbs referencing "sprout"
English Nouns
bowsprit, German Nouns
Sprosse.