Definitions for "Sprouts"
Keywords:  bud, aspens, alfalfa, tasty, rootstock
A new growth from a germinating seed, or from a rootstock, tuber, bud, or the like.
One of methods some trees use to reproduce is to sprout from dormant buds. Usually these buds are located around the root collar, near the ground. If the parent tree should weaken or die, these dormant buds will often grow into sprouts. This is common with species such as oak and birch. Sprouts which grow from dormant buds on the root system are called suckers. This is typical of aspens. [To return to previous page, click your browser's BACK button then scroll through the page to your last location
the young growth of any seed. Certain sprouts make tasty and nutritious salads, for instance, bean sprouts or alfalfa sprouts.
Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties. It was invented by mathematicians John Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in 1967.