upshoot
noun/ˈʌpʃuːt/
Etymology From up- + shoot.
- Related terms
- downshoot
upshoot
verb/ʌpˈʃuːt/
Etymology From up- + shoot.
1
To shoot upward.
- trees upshooting high1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 151: