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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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
However, the cloned seedlings are cultivated and grown, again over years, to another selection point.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
“It would take us eight years before the last patch was logged and our final seedlings established,” writes Ms. Simard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Now tens of thousands of nursery-grown seedlings are mixed with the hundreds of thousands that germinated naturally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
This morning, while checking on my experiment in the growth of hydroponic flax, I’d noticed the paper I’d taped to my desk lamp to concentrate the beam onto the seedlings.
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
