upshoot

English

Etymology

up- +‎ shoot

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To shoot upward.
    • Edmund Spenser
      trees upshooting high

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Noun

upshoot (plural upshoots)

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

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