sprouting

Speech parts

1. sprouting - Noun

2. sprouting - Verb

Meaning

of Sprout

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bloom Leakey development growth spud greening burgeon develop growing green stock grow rising shoot vegetation
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Antonyms

dying failing depressed diminishing crashing barren
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Hypernyms

development growth growing maturation ontogeny ontogenesis

Phrases with the word

month of the sprouting grain

Anagrams

outspring posturing

Examples

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites. Anne Rice

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines. William Gibson

As a young kid sprouting a wispy moustache, I was sometimes dismissed by the Russians as an upstart. I have been referred to even as a "coffeehouse player”. Viswanathan Anand

A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over. Haruki Murakami

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. Henry Miller

I will gather the daughters. Let them help lay out the garden of beauty. Let them fill the garden to overflowing with new blossoms. I perceive that one can expect a rapid sprouting of life in the New World. Helena Roerich

Close letter words and terms

sprouted sprouted bread sprouter sproutless sproutling sprouty