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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seedling
noun
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▪ Constant supervision of seedling trees was also a problem.
▪ Her best-known work concerned the anatomy of seedlings.
▪ In among the birds, there were seedlings!
▪ Instead I ate a great deal of yoghurt, and we used the pots for bringing on seedlings.
▪ It will be more advantageous for the aquarist to acquire pre-cultivated seedlings or fully developed plants from aquatic plant shops.
▪ Parsley seedlings can be grown in terracotta pots and placed on a patio, or they can be planted outside.
▪ Terraces were cut into the land; seedlings were planted.
▪ The seedlings grow as densely as four to five per square inch.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seedling

Seedling \Seed"ling\, n. (Bot.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seedling

"young plant developed from seed," 1650s, from seed (n.) + diminutive suffix -ling.

Wiktionary
seedling

a. which is a seedling (see below) n. 1 (context botany English) A young plant grown from seed 2 Any young, especially 3 # one grown in a nursery for transplanting 4 # a tree smaller than a sapling.

WordNet
seedling

n. young plant or tree grown from a seed

Wikipedia
Seedling

A seedling is a young plant sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed. A typical young seedling consists of three main parts: the radicle (embryonic root), the hypocotyl (embryonic shoot), and the cotyledons (seed leaves). The two classes of flowering plants (angiosperms) are distinguished by their numbers of seed leaves: monocotyledons (monocots) have one blade-shaped cotyledon, whereas dicotyledons (dicots) possess two round cotyledons. Gymnosperms are more varied. For example, pine seedlings have up to eight cotyledons. The seedlings of some flowering plants have no cotyledons at all. These are said to be acotyledons.

The plumule is the part of a seed embryo that develops into the shoot bearing the first true leaves of a plant. In most seeds, for example the sunflower, the plumule is a small conical structure without any leaf structure. Growth of the plumule does not occur until the cotyledons have grown above ground. This is epigeal germination. However, in seeds such as the broad bean, a leaf structure is visible on the plumule in the seed. These seeds develop by the plumule growing up through the soil with the cotyledons remaining below the surface. This is known as hypogeal germination.

Seedling (novel)

Seedling is the thirteenth book in the series of Deathlands. It was written by Laurence James under the house name James Axler.

Seedling (disambiguation)

A seedling is young plant after germination from seeds (sometimes also referred to as sprouts).

Seedling may also refer to:

  • Seedlings (novel), a book in the Deathlands series by James Axler
  • Seedlings (film), a Pakistani film directed by Mansoor Mujahid
  • Seedlings (gumball), a type of gumball candy

Usage examples of "seedling".

The water had evaporated during a succession of dry seasons, and seedling eucalypts having sprung up, the lake basin had become a forest.

The fact that when Grumps showed her the job, he had managed to separate over two dozen seedlings without damaging a single one did nothing to help her mood.

Well before the seedling was too heavy to ride the remaining hull without sinking it gunwale down, it had become far too bulky for even Keo and the captain together to hoist, regardless of ingenious improvisations of cordage.

Goodwife knew differently now, and she knew that this dear little seedling also needed that old lullaby to give it the encouragement to take a firm grip on life.

Andrew had asked about it and was told that Terry, who did not understand the mower, had, while cutting the grass, accidentally mown down the lettuce seedlings Nicky had been cultivating to help his mother with the catering.

The garden was a model of orderliness, with rows of cauliflowers and winter cabbage, leeks and Brussels sprouts and, under cloches along one wall, neat rows of seedlings.

For his seedling idea that my father was in reality a poacher was doing its best to grow.

That the secretion penetrates their coats is also evident from the large proportion of cabbage, raddish, and cress seeds which were killed, and from several of the seedlings being greatly injured.

Queenstown, Tasmania, tried to clean up an area devastated by acid rain caused by its copper smelter until the Tasmanian government ordered the company to stop revegetating the mountains and fertilizing the seedlings it planted.

We use similar tanks in the Stone-flight Demesne to spray the sammit seedlings with water.

Seven out of the 8 seedlings with bandages of tinfoil remained upright, but one which had a bandage only .

Nevertheless, the whole 9 taken together differed plainly in their degree of curvature from the many free seedlings, and from some which were wrapped in unpainted skin, growing in the same two pots.

In order to ascertain more accurately the nature of these movements, the hypocotyl of a seedling, with its cotyledons well expanded, was secured to a little stick, and a filament with triangles of paper was affixed to one of the cotyledons.

Accordingly, two pots of seedling Phalaris and one pot of seedling Brassica were exposed for 8 h.

On his windowsill, in a Burpee Seed-N-Start container, he was sprouting twelve tomato seedlings, and, remembering that Cathlin was interested in weeds, you dutifully sniffed them.