Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In horticulture, a vigorous, sappy, adventitious shoot in a tree or bush, usually arising because of heavy pruning or other unbalance of the plant.
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THE PRESIDENT: I spent a very considerable amount of time and money in that belief, but at State College, they made an elaborate test, and they have found no difference between the tree from a water-sprout and one from the bearing tree.
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