SEEDLING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Young plant or tree grown from a seed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("seedling" is a kind of...):

phanerogam; seed plant; spermatophyte (plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores)

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 Context examples: 

Her hunch was borne out in the data, with elephants consuming only 3 percent of the fruit but producing 37 percent of the viable seedlings.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)