self-sown

[ self-sohn ]

adjective

1. sown by itself, or without human or animal agency, as of a plant grown from seeds dropped from another plant.
2. sown by any agency other than humans, as of a plant grown from seeds scattered by birds or the wind.

self-sown

adjective

1. (of plants) growing from seed dispersed by any means other than by the agency of man or animals Alsoself-seeded

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-sown¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

Said of introduced plants which are reproducing by self-sown seeds.

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This was cut at its best marketable maturity, and the present young wood is made of what came up self-sown.

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For the fruit of mere lust comes to naught, even as corn, self-sown out of season, ripens not.

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They found there self-sown wheat-fields where there were lowlands, and grapevines wherever hills showed themselves.

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The desolation of that garden, choked with weeds and a wild growth of self-sown crops, is indescribable.

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