English
Etymology
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
Translations
young plant grown from seed
- Arabic: شَتْلَة f (šatla)
- Armenian: տունկ (hy) (tunk), շիվ (hy) (šiv)
- Bashkir: үҫенте (üśente)
- Burmese: ပျိုး (my) (pyui:), ပင်လောင်း (my) (panglaung:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 嫩苗 (zh) (nùnmiáo), 苗 (zh) (miáo)
- Dutch: zaailing (nl)
- Esperanto: kreskaĵo (eo)
- Finnish: taimi (fi)
- French: semis (fr)
- German: Sämling (de) m, Setzling (de) m
- Greek: φιντάνι (el) n (fintáni)
- Hungarian: hajtás (hu)
- Indonesian: benih (id)
- Italian: germoglio (it) m
- Japanese: 実生 (みしょう, mishō)
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- 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
- 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)
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References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
