sprouting

The act by which something sprouts.

Noun

  1. The act by which something sprouts.
    • 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[…] - 2009, Alan Dawley, Class and...
    • What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another...

Forms

sproutings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of sprout