SEEDLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seedling mean? 

• SEEDLING (noun)
  The noun SEEDLING has 1 sense:

1. young plant or tree grown from a seed

  Familiarity information: SEEDLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEEDLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Young plant or tree grown from a seed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("seedling" is a kind of...):

phanerogam; seed plant; spermatophyte (plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores)

 Context examples 

With greater numbers of hares feeding on spruce trees, fewer spruce seedlings were able to grow to adulthood.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

Initial testing was conducted using citrus seedlings. (As Monte pointed out, Brazil is the leading global seedling producer, and these seedlings are grown indoors, in contamination-free environments).

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)

Despite the variety of animals eating the seeds, elephants are still the tree's best chance of producing viable seedlings.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Over longer periods, these stressful conditions may result in an increase in numbers of females compared with males — more females likely means more seeds and more seedlings to fill the gap.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

They found that in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) seedlings, the number of clock proteins peaks at different times in each organ.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

It was wise that you continued to work hard over the past two years, despite the lower-than-expected financial return, for the seedlings you planted during that two-year period will now start to come up in your garden.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Productivity gains of 40% were obtained by using the zeolite concentrate for growing the seedlings.

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)

The seeds were protected from beetles and provided with an effective, natural fertilizer and were able to survive and grow into seedlings.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Hares and spruces are common residents of forested floodplains, but hares, being mobile, are often faster than spruce seedlings in reaching the best habitat.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

Bruchid beetles were the primary challenge to producing viable seedlings.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)