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seedling

  • noun
  • /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/

A young plant grown from seed.

Other meanings

  1. Any young plant, especially

  2. one grown in a nursery for transplanting.

A kind of

  • seed plant

Related words

  • cotton seedling thrips

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “seedling” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.