Sprout
To grow
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A later villain in Volume 13 ends up annoying a fertility goddess, who causes a tree to grow from inside his body and branches to sprout out of his head through his eye holes.
Source: Eye Scream / Anime and Manga -
What makes this even more depressing in the animated version is that the Lorax tells the Onceler family shortly after they move in that it takes ten years for a Truffula seed to sprout, and ten more years for that seed to grow.
Source: Literature / The Lorax - Call to Agriculture: Wergeland was an eager, self taught botanicist, and used flower metapors all over the place, as well as didactic poems and essays on how to grow and use almost anything that can sprout from Norwegian soil.
Source: Creator / Henrik Wergeland
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