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seedling
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seedling \Seed"ling\, n. (Bot.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Seedling is the thirteenth book in the series of Deathlands . It was written by Laurence James under the house name James Axler .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. young plant or tree grown from a seed
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"young plant developed from seed," 1650s, from seed (n.) + diminutive suffix -ling .
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.