upshoot

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ shoot.

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ʌpˈʃuːt/

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• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈʌpʃuːt/

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Verb

upshoot (third-person singular simple present upshoots, present participle upshooting, simple past and past participle upshot)

1. (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.

Noun

upshoot (plural upshoots)

1. (pathology) An involuntary upward movement of the eye

Related terms

• downshoot

References

• “upshoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Pushtoo, outshop, shoot up