Sprout Explained

Sprout or Sprouts may refer to:

Botany

• Brussels sprout, an edible vegetable of the brasicca genus
• Shoot, the early growth of a plant
• Sprouting, the practice of germinating seeds, often for food purposes
  • Alfalfa sprouts
  • bean sprouts:
    • Soybean sprout
    • Mung bean sprout
  • Broccoli sprouts

Places

• Sprout, Kentucky
• Sprout Creek, in Dutchess County, New York
• Sprouts of the Mohawk River, a section of the Mohawk River

People

• Sprout (surname)
• Sprout, a pseudonym of the Irish author Michael Carroll (born 1966)
• Sprouts Elder (1904–1957), international motorcycle speedway rider

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Sprout (2012 TV series), a series of Japanese drama aired on Nippon Television
• Sprout (block), a program block on Universal Kids, previously an American television network
• Sprout (novel), a 2009 young adult novel by Dale Peck
• Sprouts (game), a pencil-and-paper game
• Little Green Sprout, the sidekick to the Jolly Green Giant advertising mascot
• Sprout, a former name of Universal Kids, an American pay television channel

Brands and enterprises

• Sprout (computer), a Hewlett-Packard computer introduced in 2014
• Sprout World, a maker of pencils
• Sprouts Farmers Market, an Arizona-based chain of specialty grocery stores

Other uses

• Sprouts of capitalism, features of the economy of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties