sprouting
s prow ting
- n the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
- v produce buds, branches, or germinate
- v put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- Food gardens are sprouting up in front of San Francisco's city hall.
- Clara, now 13, started sprouting breasts and pubic hair when she was 8 and began menstruating a year later, at summer camp.
- This process of theorem sprouting had to start somewhere, and that is where the axioms came in: they were the primordial seeds, the Ur-theorems from which all others sprang.