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English
Etymology
From seed + -ling.
Pronunciation
Noun
seedling (plural seedlings)
- (botany) A young plant grown from seed.
- Any young plant, especially:
- one grown in a nursery for transplanting.
- a tree smaller than a sapling.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
young plant grown from seed
- Arabic: شَتْلَة f (šatla)
- Armenian: տունկ (hy) (tunk), շիվ (hy) (šiv), սածիլ (hy) (sacil), շիթիլ (hy) (šitʻil)
- Bashkir: үҫенте (üśente)
- 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)
- Galician: plántula f
- German: Sämling (de) m, Setzling (de) m
- Greek: φιντάνι (el) n (fintáni)
- Hungarian: hajtás (hu), palánta (hu), magonc (hu)
- Indonesian: benih (id)
- Ingrian: taimi, hutja
- Italian: germoglio (it) m, germinello (it) m
- Japanese: 実生 (ja) (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)
- Polish: sadzonka (pl) f, rozsada (pl) f
- Portuguese: muda (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਪਨੀਰੀ f (panīrī)
- Romanian: răsad (ro) n
- Russian: са́женец (ru) m (sáženec), се́янец (ru) m (séjanec)
- Scottish Gaelic: ògan m
- Slovene: potaknjenec m
- Spanish: pimpollo (es) m, plántula (es)
- Swedish: groddplanta c
- Tagalog: punla
- Thai: ต้นอ่อน (th) (dtôn-ɔ̀ɔn)
- Turkish: çöğür (tr)
- Welsh: eginblanhigyn m
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References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967