• Sprouting

    Verb

    1. Present participle of sprout

    Full definition of sprouting

    Noun

    sprouting

    (plural sproutings)
    1. The act by which something sprouts.
      • 2009, Alan Dawley, Class and Community (page 196)The historical record before the war and after shows a tendency toward independent political action in the recurrent sproutings of numerous Labor Reform and Workingmen's parties...
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