seedling

seedling
Synonyms and related words:
amphibian, angiosperm, annual, aquatic plant, biennial, conifer, cosmopolite, cutting, deciduous plant, dicot, dicotyledon, ephemeral, evergreen, exotic, flowering plant, fruit tree, fungus, gametophyte, gymnosperm, hardwood tree, hydrophyte, monocot, monocotyl, perennial, plant, pollard, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, sapling, scion, seed plant, set, shade tree, shoot, slip, softwood tree, spermatophyte, sporophyte, sprig, sprout, sucker, thallophyte, timber, timber tree, tree, triennial, twig, vascular plant, vegetable, weed

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  • Seedling — Seed ling, n. (Bot.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • seedling — (n.) young plant developed from seed, 1660, from SEED (Cf. seed) (n.) with dim. suffix LING (Cf. ling) …   Etymology dictionary

  • seedling — ► NOUN ▪ a young plant raised from seed …   English terms dictionary

  • seedling — [sēdliŋ] n. 1. a plant grown from a seed, rather than from a cutting, etc. 2. any young plant; esp., a small, young tree …   English World dictionary

  • 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… …   Wikipedia

  • seedling — UK [ˈsiːdlɪŋ] / US [ˈsɪdlɪŋ] noun [countable] Word forms seedling : singular seedling plural seedlings a young plant that has grown from a seed …   English dictionary

  • seedling — noun Date: 1660 1. a young plant grown from seed 2. a. a young tree before it becomes a sapling b. a nursery plant not yet transplanted • seedling adjective …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • seedling — 1. adjective which is a seedling (see below) 2. noun a) A young plant grown from seed b) Any young, especially …   Wiktionary

  • seedling — noun Seedling is used after these nouns: ↑weed …   Collocations dictionary

  • seedling — [[t]si͟ːdlɪŋ[/t]] seedlings N COUNT A seedling is a young plant that has been grown from a seed …   English dictionary

  • seedling — /ˈsidlɪŋ / (say seedling) noun a young plant developed from the embryo after germination of a seed. {seed + ling1} …  

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