seedling

seedling

English

Etymology

seed +‎ -ling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/

Noun

seedling (plural seedlings)

1. (botany) A young plant grown from seed.
2. Any young plant, especially:
   1. one grown in a nursery for transplanting.
   2. a tree smaller than a sapling.

Synonyms

• chit

Translations

young plant grown from seed

Arabic: شَتْلَة‎ f (šatla) Armenian: տունկ (hy) (tunk), շիվ (hy) (šiv), սածիլ (hy) (sacil), շիթիլ (hy) (šitʿil) Bashkir: үҫенте (üθente) Bulgarian: разсад m (razsad) Burmese: ပျိုး (my) (pyui:), ပင်လောင်း (my) (panglaung:) Chinese: Mandarin: 嫩苗 (zh) (nùnmiáo), 苗 (zh) (miáo) Dutch: zaailing (nl) Esperanto: kreskaĵo (eo), plantido Finnish: taimi (fi) French: semis (fr) German: Sämling (de) m, Setzling (de) m Greek: φιντάνι (el) n (fintáni) Hungarian: hajtás (hu), palánta (hu), magonc (hu) Indonesian: benih (id) Italian: germoglio (it) m, germinello (it) m Japanese: 実生 (みしょう, mishō) Kannada: ಸಸಿ (kn) (sasi), ಸಣ್ಣಗಿಡ (kn) (saṇṇagiḍa), ಮೊಳಕೆ (kn) (moḷake), ಬೀಜಾಂಕುರ (kn) (bījāṅkura) Latvian: stāds m Macedonian: расад m (rasad), садница f (sadnica) Persian: خوید‎ (fa) (xvid), نهال‎ (fa) (nahâl) Punjabi: ਪਨੀਰੀ f (panīrī) Polish: sadzonka (pl) f, rozsada (pl) f Portuguese: muda (pt) f Romanian: răsad (ro) n Russian: са́женец (ru) m (sáženec), се́янец (ru) m (séjanec) Scottish Gaelic: ògan m Slovene: potaknjenec m Spanish: pimpollo (es) m Tagalog: punla Thai: ต้นอ่อน (th) Turkish: çöğür (tr)

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967