SPROUTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sprouting mean? 

• SPROUTING (noun)
  The noun SPROUTING has 1 sense:

1. the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow

  Familiarity information: SPROUTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPROUTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

germination; sprouting

Hypernyms ("sprouting" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Derivation:

sprout (put forth and grow sprouts or shoots)

sprout (produce buds, branches, or germinate)

 Context examples 

The chemical processes that influence biodiversity by stimulating the sprouting and blossoming of plants, fruiting and seed dispersal, are regulated partly by fires.

(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)

It was the same with his hair, sparse and irregular of growth, muddy-yellow and dirty-yellow, rising on his head and sprouting out of his face in unexpected tufts and bunches, in appearance like clumped and wind-blown grain.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He caught a glimpse of that pathetic figure of him, so long ago, a self-conscious savage, sprouting sweat at every pore in an agony of apprehension, puzzled by the bewildering minutiae of eating-implements, tortured by the ogre of a servant, striving at a leap to live at such dizzy social altitude, and deciding in the end to be frankly himself, pretending no knowledge and no polish he did not possess.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)