Seedling

English

Adjective

seedling

1. which is a seedling (see below)

Noun

Seedling (plural Seedlings)

1. (botany) A young plant grown from seed
2. Any young, especially
   1. one grown in a nursery for transplanting
   2. a tree smaller than a sapling.

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

seed + -ling

Translations

young plant grown from seed

Armenian: տունկ (hy) (tunk) Dutch: zaailing (nl) Finnish: taimi (fi) French: semis (fr) German: Sämling (de) m. Hungarian: hajtás (hu)

Kannada: ಸಸಿ (kn) (sasi), ಸಣ್ಣಗಿಡ (kn) (saṇṇagiḍa), ಮೊಳಕೆ (kn) (moḷake), ಬೀಜಾಂಕುರ (kn) (bījāmkura) Macedonian: расад (mk) (rásad) m., садница (mk) (sádnica) f. Russian: сеянец (ru) m. Scottish Gaelic: ògan (gd) m. Slovene: sadika

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967