下した萌もえ

noun

sprouts emerging from the soil; early spring shoots

Poetic or literary term for the first sprouts of plants pushing up through the earth in early spring. Often associated with the freshness of the season.

• 土ど手てのあちこちに下した萌もえが見みられるようになった。

  Sprouts have started to appear here and there on the embankment.

• 下した萌もえの季き節せつになると、野の山やまが一いっ斉せいに動うごき出だす。

  When the season of early shoots arrives, the fields and hills come alive all at once.