SPROUTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sprouted mean? 

• SPROUTED (adjective)
  The adjective SPROUTED has 1 sense:

1. (of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground

  Familiarity information: SPROUTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPROUTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground

Context example:

the corn is sprouted

Similar:

up (being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level)

Domain category:

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

 Context examples 

Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Broccoli sprout extract comes from newly sprouted broccoli.

(Broccoli sprout extract, NCI Dictionary)

Here, in the City of London, was the taproot from which Empire and wealth and so many other fine leaves had sprouted.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scientists looked at the growth and survival of trees that sprouted from parent trees and grew up in crowded environs, compared to trees from seeds that were widely transported across the forest by animals.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)