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seedling

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Plants
seed·ling /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/ noun [countable]  HBPa young plant or tree grown from a seed 籽苗,种苗,幼苗5 see picture at 见图 tree
Examples from the Corpus
seedlingIt will be more advantageous for the aquarist to acquire pre-cultivated seedlings or fully developed plants from aquatic plant shops.Terraces were cut into the land; seedlings were planted.Her best-known work concerned the anatomy of seedlings.Constant supervision of seedling trees was also a problem.Instead I ate a great deal of yoghurt, and we used the pots for bringing on seedlings.Parsley seedlings can be grown in terracotta pots and placed on a patio, or they can be planted outside.The seedlings grow as densely as four to five per square inch.In among the birds, there were seedlings!
seed·ling nounChineseSyllable
or plant from Corpus a young grown a tree


seedling
seedling /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/ noun [countable]
a young plant or tree grown from a seed


seed·lingBrE /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/ 🔊 noun
a young plant that has grown from a seed 秧苗;籽苗;幼苗