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beansprout

beansprout is the alternative form of bean sprout.

Meaning of bean sprout

Noun

bean sprout (plural bean sprouts)

  1. (in plural) A sprout of the mung bean.
    • Bean sprouts are a nutritious vegetarian ingredient for stir-fry.
  2. (in plural) A sprout of the soybean.
  3. (in plural) A sprout of any of several other species of bean.
    Synonyms:
    bean shoot

Forms of beansprout

pluralbeansprouts

Questions about beansprout

What is beansprout the alternative form of?
Beansprout is the alternative form of bean sprout.

Words near beansprout in the dictionary

  1. beans of St. Ignatius
  2. beans on toast
  3. beanshooter
  4. beanshooters
  5. beanspilling
  6. beansprout
  7. beansprouts
  8. beanstalk
  9. beanstalks
  10. beanstalky
  11. beant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beansprout (page history and authors); bean sprout (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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