seedling
Example Sentences
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Now it’s graduation day, when native plants coaxed from seedling trays to 1-gallon pots stand ready for planting on the crossing itself this month.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
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
The first seedling will be looked after by horticulturalists until it is ready for planting.
From BBC • May 27, 2024
This makes it more likely for the plant seedling to encounter the fungi it needs for its own sustenance, the researchers argue.
From Science Daily • May 8, 2024
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.