Shoot
Shoots are new plant growth, they can include stems, flowering stems with flower buds, and leaves. The new growth from seed germination that grows upward is a shoot where leaves will develop. In the spring, perennial plant shoots are the new growth that grows from the ground in herbaceous plants or the new stem and/or flower growth that grows on woody plants.
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Famous quotes containing the word shoot:
“To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”
—18th century English proverb.
“We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.”
—Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945)
“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)