seedling
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Eighty years of students coming through the halls of Dorsey watched the small seedling sprout into a towering, beautiful beast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 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
In both cases, peroxisomes expanded during the seed to seedling stage as expected.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
Weyerhaeuser trained an AI model to pore over drone footage and calculate seedling survival rates, which are typically obtained by sending foresters to count twiggy young trees in rugged or sweltering terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
If I die weep at my grave every day until a seedling appears in the dirt, then cry on it to make it grow until it becomes a beautiful tree whose roots surround my body.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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The team will compare results from the dead Joshua seedlings with those that survived, as well as with samples from older Joshua trees growing nearby.
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
For a company that plants more than a 100 million seedlings a year, or 190 a minute, the savings add up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
The bishop urges Valjean to take the candlesticks to invest as seedlings in a life devoted to good.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Plants (Botany) - Introduction
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