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sprout
–verb (used without object)
1. to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
2. (of a seed or plant) to put forth buds or shoots.
3. to develop or grow quickly: a boy awkwardly sprouting into manhood.

–verb (used with object)
4. to cause to sprout.
5. to remove sprouts from: Sprout and boil the potatoes.

–noun
6. a shoot of a plant.
7. a new growth from a germinating seed, or from a rootstock, tuber, bud, or the like.
8. something resembling or suggesting a sprout, as in growth.
9. a young person; youth.

Origin:
1150–1200; (v.) ME spr ( o ) uten, OE -sprūtan, in āsproten (ptp.; see a-3 ); c. MD sprūten, G spriessen to sprout; akin to Gk speírein to scatter; (n.) ME; cf. MD, MLG sprute