seedling
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The 73-year-old bought a seedling online five years ago and planted it in a greenhouse outside his Miami home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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
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
It’s the seedling of a vision the corps dreamt up just a few years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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
Depending on what they learn, the fix for future planting projects could be as simple as mixing a bit of native earth into the potting soil where the Joshua tree seedlings are grown.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Adult Joshua trees are more resilient than seedlings, but they can still succumb to intense heat waves and drought.
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
"In the beginning, everybody had the seedlings, so the crossing and then the seed pods give plants, but we at Floricultura introduced meristems," Stefan Kuiper tells me.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Were that to happen, the seedlings might all be killed by a single drought or frost, leaving no seeds to propagate the species.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing seedling
Plants (Botany) - Introduction
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