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watersprout

noun

Etymology

From water + sprout?

  1. derived from *spreutan✻
  2. derived from sprûte — “sprout”
  3. derived from sprute
  4. derived from sprouten — “to sprout”
  5. inherited from sproute
  6. formed as watersprout — “water + sprout”

Definitions

  1. An upright shoot growing from a latent (dormant) bud on the trunk or older branch of a…

    An upright shoot growing from a latent (dormant) bud on the trunk or older branch of a tree.

    • ... watersprout, or from the old typical bearing wood. / MR. KOETHEN. I have yet failed to know what a watersprout is. If you will give any healthy limb that comes from a tree plenty of light and air, it will develop into fruit[…]
    • ... watersprout may be tied without bending, it is probably better to select another cane, even of a less productive type, that will be less likely to be broken. Where a renewal is desired, such a cane may be pruned to a spur and in[…]
    • ... watersprout, F1 canes starting from a watersprout, F2 canes starting from one year old cane, which was grown on a watersprout.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA