sprigs

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.

How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

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.

How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

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.

How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

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.

The Birds' Christmas Carol Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

In good years, when pintail numbers are up, well over 100,000 "sprigs" will winter on the Texas bays.

chron.com Chronicle 2010

We then watched as flock after flock of "sprigs" cupped and settled lightly among the decoys and squads of redheads tore over the bay and splashed unceremoniously among the blocks.

chron.com Chronicle 2010

Italian parsley sprigs, 4 thyme sprigs, and a bay leaf, tied together with kitchen twine

Recipe: How to Cook Braised Rabbit 2009

Combine beans with 4 cups vegetable stock, 1 peeled carrot, 1 leek (white part only), ½ sweet onion, 2 stalks celery and one bouquet garni (2 sprigs parsley, 2 sprigs thyme and one bay leaf, tied with kitchen string) and bring to a boil, then simmer for 35 minutes.

Meet the Meaty Veggies 2011

Put sprigs of fresh rosemary on top and between potatoes (again, use as much or as little as you wish, I use about 5 sprigs).

et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day 2010

A simple chicken consommé takes on a taste of the Yucatán with a squeeze of fresh lime, and zesty Central Mexican flavor is achieved by simply spooning in a little of the adobo sauce from chipotles en adobo or by adding a few sprigs of fresh mint.

The lighter side of Mexican cooking 2009