upshoot
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (verb) IPA(key): /ʌpˈʃuːt/
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- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈʌpʃuːt/
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Verb edit
upshoot (third-person singular simple present upshoots, present participle upshooting, simple past and past participle upshot)
- (intransitive) To shoot upward.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- trees upshooting high
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 151:
- All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “upshoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Noun edit
upshoot (plural upshoots)