Fires a gun or weapon; rapidly grows new plant growth from a stem; photographs or films scenes.
From Old English 'sceottan' meaning to propel rapidly. The word's multiple meanings all relate to rapid motion or projection—a bullet shoots, a plant shoots forth, a camera shoots film.
Plant shoots grow toward light because of a protein that senses gravity—the same physics that makes water flow downhill is what makes plants reach upward, showing how life hacks physics itself.
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