seedling

English

Etymology

seed +‎ -ling

Adjective

seedling (comparative more seedling, superlative most seedling)

1. which is a seedling (see below)

Noun

seedling (plural seedlings)

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

Translations

young plant grown from seed

• Armenian: տունկ (hy) (tunk) 
• Dutch: zaailing (nl)
• Finnish: taimi (fi)
• French: semis (fr)
• German: Sämling (de) m
• Hungarian: hajtás (hu)
• Italian: germoglio (it) m
• Japanese: 実生 (ja) (みしょう, mishō)

• Kannada: ಸಸಿ (kn) (sasi), ಸಣ್ಣಗಿಡ (kn) (saṇṇagiḍa), ಮೊಳಕೆ (kn) (moḷake), ಬೀಜಾಂಕುರ (kn) (bījāmkura)
• Macedonian: расад (mk) (rásad) m, садница (mk) (sádnica) f
• Russian: сеянец (ru) m (sejanec)
• Scottish Gaelic: ògan (gd) m
• Slovene: sadika
• Spanish: pimpollo (es) m

References

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