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seedling

noun as in sapling

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noun as in tree

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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.

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Over this time trees adapted to the changing climate by migration - essentially seedlings growing further south as it got colder and further north during warming periods.

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They were initially raised as seedlings in his mother's greenhouse, before he "chose the two better looking specimens", offering her the third one, he said.

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Coconut fibers broken down by millipedes may serve as a sustainable replacement for peat moss, a material commonly used to start seedlings but often sourced from fragile wetland ecosystems.

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When you do plant an apple seed, the resulting tree—called a seedling—will be genetically unique, a fruit unlike any that came before.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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