Hypertext Webster Gateway: "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['o]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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sprouted
adj : (of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground;
"the corn is sprouted"
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