From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishseedlingseed‧ling /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/ noun [countable] HBPa young plant or tree grown from a seed
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seedling• It 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! 