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:
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“There’s never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“Yancy Cravat: If it had been a man, I could have shot him. You can’t shoot a woman.
Felice Venable: Why not?”
—Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)