Sprout



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 长出, 萌芽; n. 嫩芽
• ［英］ v. 长出, 萌芽 ( grow, spring up) ; n. 嫩芽 ( a young shoot)
• ［记］ 和spout ( 喷出) 一起记
• ［例］ Leaves are beginning to sprout from trees.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: Middle English spruten, from Old English -sprūtan; akin to Old High German spriozan to sprout, Lithuanian sprausti to squeeze, thrust
• Date: 13th century
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout
  • 2. to send out new growth
• transitive verb
  • to send forth or up ; cause to develop ; grow

II. noun

• Date: 13th century
• 1.
  • a. shoot 1a; especially a young shoot (as from a seed or root)
  • b. plural
    • (1) chiefly British brussels sprout 2
    • (2) edible sprouts especially from recently germinated seeds (as of alfalfa or mung beans)
• 2. something resembling a sprout: as
  • a. a young person
  • b. scion 2

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