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sprouts

sprouts is the plural of sprout.

sprouts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sprout.

Meaning of sprout

Noun

sprout (plural sprouts)

  1. A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
  2. A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
    • Near-synonyms: seedling, chit
    Synonyms:
    seedling, chit
    1. An edible variety of such, grown and intended as food; examples include bean, alfalfa, kale, and others.
    2. A bean sprout.
  3. (figuratively, informal) A child.
    • Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!
  4. A Brussels sprout.
    • In our family we only eat sprouts once a year, at Christmas.

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Proper noun capitalized: Sprouts

Sprouts

  1. (plural) plural of Sprout

Phrases with sprouts

Questions about sprouts

What is sprouts the plural of?
Sprouts is the plural of sprout.
What part of speech is sprouts?
Sprouts is a proper noun.

Words near sprouts in the dictionary

  1. sprouting up
  2. sproutings
  3. sproutless
  4. sproutling
  5. sproutlings
  6. sprouts
  7. sprouts up
  8. sprouty
  9. Sproveri
  10. Sprow
  11. Sprowl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprouts (page history and authors); Sprouts (page history and authors); 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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