sprout : Idioms & Phrases
alfalfa sprout
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noun sprouted alfalfa seeds
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bean sprout
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noun any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans
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brussels sprout
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noun plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages
Brassica oleracea gemmifera; brussels sprout.
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Brussels sprouts
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noun the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant
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noun plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages
Brassica oleracea gemmifera; brussels sprout.
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(Bot.) , a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage.