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seedling

[seed-ling] / ˈsid lɪŋ /


NOUN
sapling
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Art provided a release for the young Kusama, whose father, a seedling merchant, was unfaithful to her mother.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

This was as a result of feral goats who ate every tree seedling which then prevented the forest from regenerating.

From BBC May 25, 2026

"The peroxisome gets even larger during the seed to seedling stage, when the plant is relying on fatty acids for energy, before shrinking back down to its normal size once the plant can photosynthesize."

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2026

Unlike a few of the seedling apples we’d tasted—some of which foragers evocatively call “spitters”—this was fruit I’d cut up to serve with thick slices of cheddar.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

She plucked the seedling neatly into the mud, and it stood straight up like it had been growing there all along!

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

Pine plantations are started with several hundred seedlings an acre.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

But in the case of the power line planting, temperature and rainfall data failed to fully explain why so many of the seedlings didn’t establish, Polyakov said.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 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

However, the cloned seedlings are cultivated and grown, again over years, to another selection point.

From BBC May 14, 2026

Civilian Conservation Corps planted millions of kuzu seedlings to fight soil loss, a major fear in the era of the Dust Bowl.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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