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seedling

[seed-ling] / ˈsid lɪŋ /


NOUN
sapling
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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This was as a result of feral goats who ate every tree seedling which then prevented the forest from regenerating.

From BBC May 25, 2026

In the shade beneath the fading giant, a seedling had sprouted.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

"It was only then that we were able to see that PEX11 is clearly involved in controlling the growth of the peroxisome during the seed to seedling stage."

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2026

It’s using AI to pore over drone footage and calculate seedling survival rates—a process that’s typically labor-intensive.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

For a number of years California rice growers have been treating seed with DDT as protection against tadpole shrimp and scavenger beetles which sometimes damage seedling rice.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The team will compare results from the dead Joshua seedlings with those that survived, as well as with samples from older Joshua trees growing nearby.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 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

For a company that plants more than a 100 million seedlings a year, or 190 a minute, the savings add up.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

Would violent storms wash the seeds from the fields and batter down seedlings?

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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