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seedling
[ seed-ling ]
noun
- a plant or tree grown from a seed.
- a tree not yet 3 feet (1 meter) high.
- any young plant, especially one grown in a nursery for transplanting.
seedling
/ ˈːɪŋ /
noun
- a very young plant produced from a seed
seedling
- A young plant, especially one that grows from a seed rather than from a cutting.
- See Note at germination
Example Sentences
After the heavy rains that winter, she was delighted to find them sprouting in the spring, fighting through the weeds along with buckwheat seedlings.
The seedlings of the LA Strong Sports foundation were sown, the Redicks speaking with their friends in the community about the best and fastest way to get things going.
New seedlings can then be grown on a higher scale.
That strategy, called assisted gene flow, can be accomplished by planting seeds or seedlings, or by relocating mature trees, he said.
This wild plant, whose seedlings proliferate after a fire, served as a vital food source of many of the region’s Indigenous people, who tended it with prescribed burns.
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