Sprout synonyms

bud

To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

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shoot up

Used other than as an idiom. to shoot upwards

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grow (related)

To allow to grow

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pullulation

A teeming, swarming, or multiplying.

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plumule

A down feather.

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rattoon

Ratoon

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shoot

The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

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aerospire

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chit

(US and UK dated) A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.

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kin (related)

Race; family; breed; kind.

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scion

A shoot or bud of a plant, esp. one for planting or grafting

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bloom

(Intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.

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seedling

A young plant, especially one that grows from a seed rather than from a cutting.

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stock

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

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spud

To begin drilling operations on:

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take-root

(Intransitive, figuratively) To become established, to take hold.

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burgeon

To grow or develop rapidly; expand; proliferate; flourish

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sucker

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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branch

To embroider (something) with a design of foliage or flowers.

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develop

To make available and effective to fulfill a particular end or need:

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tendril

A slender, coiling plant part, often a modified leaf or leaf part, that helps support the stem of some climbing angiosperms by clinging to or winding around an object. Peas, squash, and grapes produce tendrils.

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vegetate

(Med.) To grow or increase in size, as a wart or other abnormal outgrowth does

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shrivel (antonym)

To lose or cause to lose vitality or intensity:

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shrink (antonym)

Shrink is defined as to become less, reduce or make smaller.

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die (antonym)

Die is defined as to stop living, existing or fade away.

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bine

A plant having such stems

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runner

One who operates or manages something:

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burgeon forth

produce buds, branches, or germinate

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germinate

The definition of germinate is to start to grow, develop or sprout.

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burgeoning

A bud or branch

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bourgeon

(Obsolete) To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

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offshoot

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proliferate

To cause to grow or increase rapidly.

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pullulate

To sprout out; germinate; bud

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ramify

To have complicating consequences or outgrowths:

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spout

To speak or utter in a loud, pompous manner or in a ready, rapid flow of words

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sprig

To remove a sprig or sprigs from (a bush or tree).

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spring

Spring is defined as to jump up or to originate from.

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thrive

To prosper or flourish; be successful, esp. as the result of economical management

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sprouting (related)

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cabbage (related)

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tiller

A shoot growing from the base of the stem of a plant

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sprouts (related)

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Romanesco (related)

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kohlrabi (related)

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ripen (related)

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broccoli (related)

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beetroot (related)

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