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seedling

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seedling
a very young plant produced from a seed

seedling [′sēd·liŋ]
(botany)
A plant grown from seed.
A tree younger and smaller than a sapling.
A tree grown from a seed.


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Here was I thinking you a new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an effete aristocracy
What was the agony of the unfortunate Boxtel on seeing the windows of the new story set out with bulbs and seedlings of tulips for the border, and tulips in pots; in short, with everything pertaining to the pursuits of a tulip-monomaniac!
The sandbars, with their clean white beaches and their little groves of willows and cottonwood seedlings, were a sort of No Man's Land, little newly created worlds that belonged to the Black Hawk boys.
 
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