ontspruiten — meaning in English

English meaning

• grow verb To increase in size, amount, or extent over time.
• sprout verb To begin growing, as a seed or plant does.

Senses

ontspruiten is used for these senses in English:

• grow (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
• spring to life (idiomatic) To start to exist.
• sprout (gardening, intransitive) To grow from seed; to germinate.

grow — full definition

1. verb To increase in size, amount, or extent over time.
2. verb To develop or mature, physically or personally.
3. verb To cultivate plants or cause them to develop.
4. verb To gradually come to have a quality or feeling.

sprout — full definition

1. verb To begin growing, as a seed or plant does.
2. verb To appear or spring up suddenly, often in large numbers.
3. noun A young shoot or new growth from a plant or seed.

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