seedling

English

Etymology

From seed +‎ -ling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/

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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

Derived terms

• cotton seedling thrips

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

References

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