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Sprossen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • sprout verb To begin growing, as a seed or plant does.

Senses

Sprossen is used for these senses in English:

  • Brussels sprout (chiefly, in the plural) The green vegetable Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera, a cabbage variety native to Belgium.
  • sprout A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.

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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