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Spross — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bud noun A small swelling on a plant that will develop into a leaf, flower, or shoot.
  • descendant noun A person related to someone who lived in an earlier generation, such as a child, grandchild, or later relative.
  • fruit noun The seed-bearing part of a plant, often sweet and eaten as food, such as an apple or orange.
  • scion noun A descendant of a notable or wealthy family, especially the first generation.
  • sprout verb To begin growing, as a seed or plant does.

Senses

Spross is used for these senses in English:

  • bud A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
  • descendant One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
  • scion (botany) A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.

bud — full definition

  1. noun A small swelling on a plant that will develop into a leaf, flower, or shoot.
  2. noun Something in an early stage of development.
  3. noun Slang for marijuana, especially the dried flowering part of the cannabis plant.
  4. verb To produce or begin developing buds, or to start growing in a similar early way.
  5. noun An informal, friendly term of address for a man, similar to "buddy" or "pal."

descendant — full definition

  1. noun A person related to someone who lived in an earlier generation, such as a child, grandchild, or later relative.
  2. noun Something that develops from, or is a later version of, an earlier thing.

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