seedling
noun
a plant or tree grown from a seed.
seedlings
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pluralof seedling.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Yurok revegetation crews culled invasive weeds and planted nearly half a million native seedlings across 50 species, including redwoods and black cottonwood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The site has also attracted blue herons, kingfishers, otters, deer, bears, California condors and a resident herd of elk notorious for tearing up new seedlings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The government has promised to compensate for the swathes of trees cut down by planting seedlings in Haryana -- a northern state next to New Delhi.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
"In the beginning, everybody had the seedlings, so the crossing and then the seed pods give plants, but we at Floricultura introduced meristems," Stefan Kuiper tells me.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Baachan, cupping twenty or so seedlings in her hands, said, “Now I show you how to do. You take seedling”—she held one up—“and plant into ground like this. Put it right here at bead.”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
