Sprout or Sprouts may refer to:
Botany
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Brussels sprout, an edible vegetable of the ''brasicca'' genus
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Shoot, the early growth of a plant
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Sprouting
Sprouting is the natural process by which seeds or spores germinate and put out shoots, and already established plants produce new leaves or buds, or other structures experience further growth.
In the field of nutrition, the term signifies ...
, the practice of germinating seeds, often for food purposes
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Alfalfa
Alfalfa () (''Medicago sativa''), also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as w ...
sprouts
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Soybean sprout
Soybean sprout is a culinary vegetable grown by sprouting soybeans. It can be grown by placing and watering the sprouted soybeans in the shade until the roots grow long. Soybean sprouts are extensively cultivated and consumed in Asian countries.
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Mung bean sprout
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Broccoli sprouts
Broccoli sprouts are three- to four-day-old broccoli plants that look like alfalfa sprouts, but taste like radishes.
History
While health-conscious people in the 1970s embraced raw sprouts as a dietary staple, it was not until the 1990s that ...
Places
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Sprout, Kentucky
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Sprout Creek
Sprout Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed October 3, 2011 creek located entirely within Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is the largest tributary of F ...
, in Dutchess County, New York
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Sprouts of the Mohawk River, a section of the Mohawk River
People
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Sprout (surname) Sprout is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bob Sprout (born 1941), American baseball pitcher
* Jonathan Sprout (born 1952), American singer-songwriter
* Pomona Sprout, fictional character in the Harry Potter franchise
* Tobin ...
* Sprout, a pseudonym of the Irish author
Michael Carroll (born 1966)
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Sprouts Elder (1904–1957), international motorcycle speedway rider
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Sprout'' (2012 TV series), a series of Japanese drama aired on Nippon Television
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Sprout (block), a program block on Universal Kids, previously an American television network
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''Sprout'' (novel), a 2009 young adult novel by Dale Peck
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''Sprouts'' (game), a pencil-and-paper game
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Little Green Sprout, the sidekick to the Jolly Green Giant advertising mascot
* Sprout, a former name of
Universal Kids, an American pay television channel
Brands and enterprises
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Sprout (computer)
Sprout by HP (stylized as sprout) was a personal computer from HP Inc. announced on October 29, 2014 and released for sale on November 9, 2014. The system was conceived by Brad Short, a Distinguished Technologist at HP Inc., who along with Louis Ki ...
, a Hewlett-Packard computer introduced in 2014
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Sprout World Sprout World is a Danish company that develops sustainable and plantable writing tools.
The company was established in 2013 by Danish entrepreneur Michael Stausholm.
The company's main product is the Sprout Pencil, which was originally invented by ...
, a maker of pencils
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Sprouts Farmers Market
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc., is a supermarket chain headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The grocer offers a wide selection of natural and organic foods, including fresh produce, bulk foods, vitamins and supplements, packaged groceries, meat ...
, an Arizona-based chain of specialty grocery stores
Other uses
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Sprouts of capitalism
The sprouts of capitalism, seeds of capitalism or capitalist sprouts are features of the economy of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties (16th to 18th centuries) that mainland Chinese historians have seen as resembling developments in pre-industr ...
, features of the economy of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties
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