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To sprout is to start growing — a seed sends out its first small shoot, or a plant puts out new leaves. Hair, buildings and ideas can sprout too, meaning they appear quickly and in numbers. As a noun, a sprout is that first young shoot; Brussels sprouts are a small green vegetable.
發芽、長出；嫩芽
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Sproutname
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A surname.
sproutnoun詞源 1/spɹaʊt/
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A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
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A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
- Near-synonyms: seedling, chit
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A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
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A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
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informalA child.
- Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!
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A Brussels sprout.
- In our family we only eat sprouts once a year, at Christmas.
sproutverb詞源 2/spɹaʊt/
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agriculturebusinesshorticultureTo grow from seed; to germinate.
- The crocuses should be sprouting after 2 months, provided they're well tended.
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To cause to grow from a seed.
- I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad.
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To deprive of sprouts.
- to sprout potatoes
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To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
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To emerge haphazardly from a surface.
- Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin.
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To emerge or appear haphazardly.
- A lot of coffee shops have sprouted up in this neighbourhood since the block of flats was put up.
- In those early years of the 1830s and 1840s, railways were sprouting up all over the country in a haphazard way.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。