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a seed deciding, against all logic, that this is the place to bet everything.
means The act of a seed or plant putting out its first shoots or buds as it begins to grow.
from From the Old English "sprutan," to sprout or grow — a root shared across the Germanic languages, including Dutch "spruiten" and German "spriessen." It belongs to a cluster of "spr-" words (sprout, spray, sprig, spring) that all carry a sense of something bursting outward, possibly echoing an ancient root for swelling or shooting up.
- force
- Sprouts can crack concrete and lift sidewalks
- speed
- Bamboo shoots grow nearly a meter daily
- chemistry
- Sprouting multiplies a seed's vitamin C dramatically
- trigger
- Water and warmth wake seeds dormant for centuries
- survival
- A 2000-year-old date seed sprouted in 2005
mung bean sprouts — most consumed sprout globally, ready to eat in 3-5 days, staple in asian cuisine
alfalfa sprouts — popular in north american salads since 1970s, associated with food safety recalls in 1990s-2000s
broccoli sprouts — contain sulforaphane, studied at johns hopkins university since 1997 for cancer prevention