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sprouting

adjective as in blooming

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adjective as in maturing

noun as in efflorescence

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How is life worth living without spinach, tender asparagus, or purple-sprouting broccoli?

Although Newark faces enormous challenges, there are green shoots sprouting up all over the city.

As Whitmire and Madden plotted in Texas, the idea was sprouting roots across the country.

Of course, some these ascendant cities now are sprouting their own “hip” neighborhoods.

She grew up in a crumbling ancestral palace in India, with trees sprouting up through several of its 300 rooms.

After sprouting again, allowing for the seed, increase in bulk for each rod separately.

In favorable circumstances sprouting will give a gain of four to six days, but in many cases dry seed will be fully as early.

The narrow or hilling hoe follows the operation of the sprouting hoe.

I, who had been sitting calm, on the low parapet beneath the tenderly sprouting wistaria arbour, broke my philosophic silence.

Hence the furrows are not ploughed close together, for the roots when crowded impede the sprouting of the plant.

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On this page you'll find 212 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sprouting, such as: budding, flourishing, blossoming, growing, opening, and bearing fruit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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