Definition of "sprigs" [sprigs]

• Plural form of sprig. (noun)

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• "Many warm-climate grasses (Saint Augustine and hybrid Bermuda) are typically started from sod (or from pieces of vegetation called sprigs or stolons)—not from seeds."
• "I should like rather a LARGE Christmas tree, if it's convenient: not one of those "sprigs," five or six feet high, that you used to have three or four years ago, when the birdlings were not fairly feathered out; but a tree of some size."
• "In good years, when pintail numbers are up, well over 100,000 "sprigs" will winter on the Texas bays."