Skip to main content

sprouting

/sprout/US // spraʊt //UK // (spraʊt) //

发芽,发芽率,发芽期,发芽率高

Related Words

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
    • : to put forth buds or shoots.
    • : to develop or grow quickly: a boy awkwardly sprouting into manhood.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause to sprout.
    • : to remove sprouts from: Sprout and boil the potatoes.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a shoot of a plant.
    • : a new growth from a germinating seed, or from a rootstock, tuber, bud, or the like.
    • : something resembling or suggesting a sprout, as in growth.
    • : a young person; youth.
    • : sprouts, the young shoots of alfalfa, soybeans, etc., eaten as a raw vegetable.Brussels sprout.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Such pruning is called “topping,” and it increases the plant’s risk of disease while guaranteeing that a load of twiggy sprouts will erupt from below the point of amputation.

  • Ladle the soup into bowls, and, if using, garnish with cilantro, sprouts, basil, onion, sambal oelek, sriracha, jalapeño or serrano chile, and a squeeze of lime.

  • We start out with very small sprouts, which we grow in test tubes before we transfer them to a greenhouse, where they’ll develop into plants that will create small tubers.

  • Many holiday recipes already call for in-season ingredients, like sweet potatoes, squash, kale, and brussel sprouts.

  • While you collect the rootstocks, keep an eye out for little sprouts at the base of the plant.

  • Want to shoot lasers from your eyes, or see wings sprout from your arms?

  • In the garden, giant mushroom sculptures sprout from the ground and wire spider webs hang between trees.

  • I particularly believed that from the ashes of the unrest we could work to sprout new hope for our community.

  • A sprout just showing will endure several nights' freezing if there is some warm sun in the day-time.

  • A long sprout is liable to be broken off in sowing, or killed by cold, after it is in the ground.

  • "Well, if Willis Morgan's been misjudged, then I'm really an angel all ready to sprout wings," observed the clerk.

  • Said I not, he holdeth, as yet, but the dead letter—but the seed which is sown shall one day sprout and quicken?

  • "I'm only a boy sprout," said Roy, his wonted buoyancy persisting.