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Webster 1913 Edition

Seedling

Seed′ling

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Noun.

(Bot.)

A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

Webster 1828 Edition

Seedling

SEE'DLING

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Noun.

A young plant or root just sprung from the seed.

Definition 2024

seedling

seedling

English

Adjective

seedling ‎(comparative more seedling, superlative most seedling)

which is a seedling (see below)

Noun

seedling ‎(plural seedlings)

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

Synonyms

chit

Translations

young plant grown from seed

Arabic: شَتْلَة f ‎(šatla)
Armenian: տունկ (hy) ‎(tunk), շիվ (hy) ‎(šiv)
Bashkir: үҫенте ‎(üθente)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 嫩苗 (zh) ‎(nùnmiáo), 苗 (zh) ‎(miáo)
Dutch: zaailing (nl)
Finnish: taimi (fi)
French: semis (fr)
German: Sämling (de) m
Hungarian: hajtás (hu)
Italian: germoglio (it) m
Japanese: 実生 ‎(みしょう, mishō)

Kannada: ಸಸಿ (kn) ‎(sasi), ಸಣ್ಣಗಿಡ (kn) ‎(saṇṇagiḍa), ಮೊಳಕೆ (kn) ‎(moḷake), ಬೀಜಾಂಕುರ (kn) ‎(bījāṃkura)
Latvian: stāds m
Macedonian: расад m ‎(rásad), садница f ‎(sádnica)
Persian: خوید (fa) ‎(xvid), نهال (fa) ‎(nahâl)
Portuguese: muda (pt) f
Romanian: răsad (ro) n
Russian: са́женец (ru) m ‎(sáženec), се́янец (ru) m ‎(séjanec)
Scottish Gaelic: ògan m
Slovene: sadika f
Spanish: pimpollo (es) m
Tagalog: punla
Thai: ต้นอ่อน (th)

References

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