Usually means: Young plant growth from seed.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprout: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sprout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sprout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sprout: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sprout: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sprout, sprout: Wordnik
  7. sprout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sprout, sprout: Wiktionary
  9. sprout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sprout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sprout: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sprout: Dictionary.com
  13. sprout (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sprout: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sprout (TV channel), Sprout (TV network), Sprout (block), Sprout (computer), Sprout (novel), Sprout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sprout: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sprout: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sprout: Rhymezone
  19. sprout: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sprout: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sprout: Free Dictionary
  22. sprout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sprout: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sprout (disambiguation), sprout: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sprout (disambiguation), sprout: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sprout: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sprout (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. sprout, sprout: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. sprout: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See sprouted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
noun:  A child.
noun:  A Brussels sprout.
noun:  A bean sprout.
noun:  An edible germinated seed.
verb:  (horticulture, intransitive) To grow from seed; to germinate.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.
verb:  (transitive) To deprive of sprouts.
verb:  (intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
verb:  (figurative, intransitive) To emerge haphazardly from a surface.
verb:  (figurative, intransitive) To emerge or appear haphazardly.
noun:  A surname.

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