resprout

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verb

To sprout again.

OriginEnglish sprout ← Middle English re- ← Old French re- →
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Meanings

verbresprout (third-person singular simple present resprouts, present participle resprouting, simple past and past participle resprouted)

present singular third person resprouts · participle present resprouting · participle past resprouted · past resprouted

  1. To sprout again.

    "These have good root stock; they can be cropped once a year and resprout," he said.

    2009 March 3, Stuart Innes, “Sugar cane and pine forests to create ethanol”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2009

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishsprout
  7. Englishresprout

From re- + sprout.

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Translations

Māori torokiki
  • torokikito show fresh growth again

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

sprouterposturer
Cite this entry
APA

resprout. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resprout

MLA

“resprout.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resprout. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resprout,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resprout.

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