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seedling

/ˈsiːdlɪŋ/

seedling noun: a young plant grown from seed.

seedling: a young plant grown from seed
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Noun

seedling (plural seedlings)

  1. A young plant grown from seed.
    • Near-synonyms: sprout, chit
    Synonyms:
    sprout, chit
  2. one grown in a nursery for transplanting.
  3. a tree smaller than a sapling.

seedling meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

seedling in Hindi

seedling
पौध paudh

seedling in Tamil

young plant grown from seed
நாற்று nāṟṟu, முளை muḷai

seedling in Urdu

نہال تخمی, پودا, تخمی درخت

seedling in Malayalam

വിത്തിൽ നിന്നു മുളച്ച ചെടിത്തൈ, വിത്തുണ്ടാക്കൽ, അരിയുണ്ടാക്കൽ
More languagesFewer languages
seedling in Kannada
ಸಸಿ sasi, ಸಣ್ಣಗಿಡ saṇṇagiḍa, ಮೊಳಕೆ moḷake, ಬೀಜಾಂಕುರ bījāṅkura
seedling in Punjabi
ਪਨੀਰੀ panīrī
seedling in Nepali
बिरुवा biruwā, बीउ bīu
seedling in Tagalog
punla
seedling in Arabic
شَتْلَة šatla
seedling in Malay
anak benih, anak tumbuhan
seedling in Indonesian
benih
seedling in Persian
خوید xvid, نهال nahâl
seedling in Thai
ต้นอ่อน dtôn-ɔ̀ɔn
seedling in Myanmar
ပျိုး pyui:, ပင်လောင်း panglaung:

Examples of seedling in a sentence

  • The seedlings appeared to be coming along nicely until a late frost killed them.
  • The estate's present seed stock comprises seedlings, bulbs and various nuts.
  • All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.

All 38 example sentences with seedling

Synonyms of seedling

Forms of seedling

pluralseedlings

Plural of seedling: seedlings

Origin of seedling

From seed + -ling.

Words formed from seedling

Questions about seedling

What does seedling mean?
Seedling means a young plant grown from seed.
What is seedling in Hindi?
Seedling in Hindi is पौध (paudh). See Seedling meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is seedling?
Seedling is a noun.
How do you pronounce seedling?
Seedling is pronounced /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/.
What is the plural of seedling?
The plural of seedling is seedlings.

Words near seedling in the dictionary

  1. seedlets
  2. Seedley
  3. seedlike
  4. seedline
  5. seedlines
  6. seedling
  7. seedlings
  8. seedlip
  9. seedlips
  10. seedlot
  11. seedlots

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: seedling (page history and authors); पौध (Hindi) (page history and authors); seedling (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seedling (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); बिरुवा (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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