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| sprout | |
| 1. n. A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts. |  |
| 2. n. A child. | |
| 3. n. (chiefly in the plural) A Brussels sprout. | |
| 4. n. (chiefly in the plural) A bean sprout. | |
| 5. n. An edible germinated seed. | |
| 6. v. (gardening) To grow from seed; to germinate. | |
| 7. v. To cause to grow from a seed. | |
| I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad. | |
| 8. v. To deprive of sprouts. | |
| to sprout potatoes | |
| 9. v. To emerge from the ground as sprouts. | |
| 10. v. (figurative, intransitive) To emerge haphazardly from a surface. | |
| Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin. | |
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