SPROUT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SPROUT?

Need another word that means the same as “sprout”? Find 27 synonyms and 30 related words for “sprout” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Sprout” are: stock, bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud, put forth shoots, bud, grow, develop, spring up, shoot up, come up, burgeon, appear, mushroom, proliferate, offshoot, scion, sucker, spear, runner, tendril, sprig, cutting

Sprout as a Noun

Definitions of "Sprout" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “sprout” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Young shoots, especially of alfalfa, mung beans, or soybeans, eaten as a vegetable.
• A newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed.
• Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud.
• A shoot of a plant.

Synonyms of "Sprout" as a noun (9 Words)

bud	An outgrowth from an organism, e.g. a yeast cell, that separates to form a new individual without sexual reproduction taking place. In certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops.
cutting	The act of cutting something into parts. They found the cutting and scrambled down the slope.
offshoot	A thing that develops from something else. Commercial offshoots of universities.
runner	A plant that spreads by means of runners. Runners who spend their time looking for good buys.
scion	A descendant of a notable family. A scion of royal stock.
spear	A spearman. Smoked salmon wrapped around asparagus spears.
sprig	A small moulded decoration applied to a piece of pottery before firing. A sprig of the French nobility.
sucker	A drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw. If suckers will actually pay to do the work more fool them.
tendril	Something resembling a plant tendril especially a slender curl or ringlet of hair. The wind fitfully moved the dark tendrils around her forehead.

Usage Examples of "Sprout" as a noun

• The flower pots are full of green sprouts.

Sprout as a Verb

Definitions of "Sprout" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “sprout” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• (of a plant, flower, or hair) start to grow; spring up.
• Grow (plant shoots or hair.
• Appear or develop suddenly and in large numbers.
• Produce buds, branches, or germinate.
• Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots.
• (of a plant) put out shoots.

Synonyms of "Sprout" as a verb (18 Words)

appear	Appear as a character on stage or appear in a play etc. She appeared not to know what was happening.
bourgeon	Produce buds, branches, or germinate.
bud	Of a plant or animal form a bud. New blood vessels bud out from the vascular bed.
burgeon	Put forth young shoots; bud. The burgeoning administration.
burgeon forth	Grow and flourish.
come up	To be the product or result.
develop	Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development. Children must develop a sense of right and wrong.
germinate	Cause a seed or spore to germinate. The idea germinated and slowly grew into an obsession.
grow	Cultivate by growing often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques. If a newt s leg is amputated it will grow a new one.
mushroom	Pick or gather mushrooms. The problem mushroomed.
proliferate	Increase rapidly in number; multiply. The science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s.
pullulate	Breed freely and abundantly. The place pullulated with writers.
put forth shoots	Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.
shoot	Of a plant or seed send out buds or shoots germinate. Shoot a glance.
shoot up	Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.
spring up	Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.
spud	Make the initial drilling for (an oil well). The well was spudded in April.
stock	Provide or furnish with a stock of something. Stock a rifle.

Usage Examples of "Sprout" as a verb

• Crocuses sprouted up from the grass.
• Plush new hotels are sprouting up everywhere.
• The potatoes sprouted.
• The weeds begin to sprout.
• Many black cats sprout a few white hairs.
• The plant sprouted early this year.

Associations of "Sprout" (30 Words)

barley	A grain of barley.
bean	A leguminous plant that bears beans in pods. A tin of beans.
bud	Graft a bud of a plant on to another plant. In certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops.
carrot	A cultivated plant of the parsley family with feathery leaves which yields carrots. Carrot juice.
chard	Long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves.
corn	Feed cattle with corn. Fields of corn.
cornfield	A field planted with corn.
crop	Yield crops. The southern areas are cropped in cotton.
flower	A flower together with its stalk picked for use as a decoration. All right then flower.
germinal	Relating to or of the nature of a germ cell or embryo. A germinal idea.
germinate	Cause a seed or spore to germinate. The plentiful rain germinated my plants.
grain	1 7000 pound equals a troy grain or 64 799 milligrams. What is the use of having natural wood when you can grain it like that.
grass	Feed livestock on grass. The owners decided to grass their property.
grow	Cultivate by growing often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques. Entrepreneurs who are struggling to grow their businesses.
legume	A leguminous plant (member of the pea family), especially one grown as a crop. The new diet is high in fruit vegetables and legumes.
maize	Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times.
millet	A cereal grown in warm countries and regions with poor soils, bearing a large crop of small seeds which are chiefly used to make flour.
ovule	A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization.
peanut	Underground pod of the peanut vine. He pays peanuts.
plant	Put or set seeds seedlings or plants into the ground. Plant bugs in the dissident s apartment.
pollen	A fine powdery substance typically yellow consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone Each grain contains a male gamete that can fertilize the female ovule to which pollen is transported by the wind insects or other animals.
production	(law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law. Banning the production of chemical weapons.
rice	Sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice. Riced boiled potatoes.
seed	Sow seed. Seed grapes.
soybean	The most highly proteinaceous vegetable known the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder especially as a replacement for animal protein.
spore	A minute, typically one-celled, reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new individual without sexual fusion, characteristic of lower plants, fungi, and protozoans. A sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes.
straw	A pale yellow colour like that of straw. Cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm.
succotash	Fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream.
vine	A climbing or trailing woody stemmed plant related to the grapevine. The hip got their vines at Wolmuth s on Market Street.
wheat	The grain of wheat.