sprouted" : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sprouted	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sprouted
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sprouted adj (of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground; "the corn is sprouted"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sprout \Sprout\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sprouted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sprouting}.] [OE. sprouten, spruten; akin to OFries. spr[?]ta, AS. spre[a2]tan, D. spruiten, G. spriessen, Sw. spruta to squirt, to spout. Cf. {Sprit}, v. t. & i., {Sprit} a spar, {Spout}, v. t., {Spurt}.] 1. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. 2. To shoot into ramifications. [Obs.] --Bacon.