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# seedling

«seedling» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very young plant that has just grown from a seed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a seedling, seedlings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A seedling is a very young plant that has just grown from a seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seedling/#m1)

2) A seedling has its first small leaves and needs light, water and care to grow strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seedling/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils grow seedlings from beans or cress to learn about germination and what plants need: water, light, warmth and soil. In gardening, seedlings are planted out when big enough. Phrases: «plant out the seedlings», «water the seedlings», «grow seedlings».

### examples

- Our bean seedlings grew two centimetres this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seedling/#x1)
- Water the seedlings gently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seedling/#x2)
- The seedlings on the dark shelf were pale and thin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seedling/#x3)
- We planted the tomato seedlings in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seedling/#x4)
- A seedling grows from a seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seedling/#x5)
- Slugs ate our lettuce seedlings overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seedling/#x6)

### note

Countable: seedling, seedlings. «-ling» means small or young (duckling, gosling). In a science table you can record a seedling's height each day and find how much it grew: later height − earlier height.

### In the corpora

- [Every Granny Smith tree comes from one seedling found in Australia around 1868 by Maria Ann Smith.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/10/)
- [A bean plant's life cycle is seed, seedling, adult plant with flowers, and pods with new seeds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seedling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seedling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.