seedling
seedling
Definition
seed·ling (-liŋ)
noun
- a plant grown from a seed, rather than from a cutting, etc.
- any young plant; esp., a small, young tree
seedling
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- germinate: No matter how long you garden for, spring time is always exciting, seeing germinating seedlings pushing through.
- inoculate: Figure 1: Brown water-soaked and dry pith necrosis of the stem of tomato seedling inoculated with Pseudomonas mediterranea.
- sow: Do remember to thin out any recently sown carrots seedlings to ensure that competition for water is kept to the minimum.
- transplant: Transplant the seedlings into your open plot, or a large pot, during the spring.
- regenerate: Basically there were plenty of naturally regenerating seedlings - farmers cut back those they did not want to develop into fodder trees.
- emerge: I expect to see emerging seedlings within 14 days he noted.
Noun used with modifier
- cress: Students have successfully grown cress seedlings in glass tubes of agar containing the metal ions.
- thistle: Sward management should aim to encourage a dense cover of grass to form otherwise spear thistle seedlings will establish in thin or bare areas.
- weed: The sooner you can identify weed seedlings the sooner you can pull them up.
- lettuce: Our lettuce seedlings start their life in a small fertile peat block, planted in specially prepared fields.
- pine: Deer, in particular, have had a major impact in recent years on the ability of pine seedlings to survive.
- tomato: The grafting is done when tomato seedling are about ten days old.
Adjective modifier
- self-fertilised: Many of the self-fertilised seedlings suffered greatly, and a much larger number of them perished than of the crossed.
- Scots: At the time, the enclosure contained around 100,000 Scots pine seedlings.
- tiny: This water can be used for all plants except tiny little seedlings which do need a drop of cleaner water from the mains.
Modifies a noun
- emergence: The main period of seedling emergence is April to May with a peak in April.
- blight: It covers symptoms, disease cycle, mycotoxins in scabby grain, seedling blight phase of scab, and control methods.
- establishment: The ecology of severe moorland fire on the North York Moors: seed distribution and seedling establishment of Calluna vulgaris.
Preposition: in
- quadrate: There is at most 1 seedling in a quadrate.
- greenhouse: Onions The onion seedlings in the greenhouse are doing OK.
Browse dictionary entries near seedling
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