Used in a Sentence

seedling

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for seedling.

Editorial note

Hi Fizx, The position is for someone to lead development but also to help lead the overall strategy of a seedling product.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Any young plant, especially:

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of seedling gathered in one view.

noun

Any young plant, especially:

noun

one grown in a nursery for transplanting.

noun

a tree smaller than a sapling.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for seedling.

noun

Any young plant, especially:

noun

one grown in a nursery for transplanting.

noun

a tree smaller than a sapling.

noun

(botany) A young plant grown from seed.

Example sentences

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Hi Fizx, The position is for someone to lead development but also to help lead the overall strategy of a seedling product.

2

I remember the original seedling goals that Spolsky posted; for example, a question is likely inappropriate for SO if its answer couldn't involve code.

3

But Rubinette has a secret, is a seedling of Cox x Golden delicious, and its flavor is fantastic.

4

The latest fad is to sprinkle little amounts of money around and hope they can pluck a promising seedling.

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Typically if your pecan tree seedling is 1' tall the tap root will already be more than 3' long.

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The vast majority of trees are planted because the value of a sapling ismore than a seedling.

7

The article touches on a seedling of truth, but then takes it in a misleading direction.

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The other thing is that drones offer only pre-germinated seedling as planting material.

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Trying to start a seedling or a cloned cutting no longer works when the length of day goes around six hours or so.

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The tree you can't reach your arms around grew from a tiny seedling.

11

Ideas need sunshine, but a seedling also does better in a nursery.

12

Even if someone did claim to own it, because each new seedling is a little different, that claim would be all but impossible to enforce.

Quote examples

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In the now-ancient Cringely book called "Accidental Empires" the author relates the story of how the lead engineer working on 3COM's first ethernet card paused his assigned work to measure the reflectivity of his office's ceiling tiles while the seedling company awaited his fundamentally important work.

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If the police had been able to swoop in and arrest the "perpetrators" every time two men kissed, homosexuality would have never been legalized; If they had been able to arrest anyone who made alcohol, prohibition wouldn't have ended; if they had been able to arrest anyone with a cannabis seedling, we wouldn't have cannabis legalization.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use seedling in a sentence?

Hi Fizx, The position is for someone to lead development but also to help lead the overall strategy of a seedling product.

What does seedling mean?

Any young plant, especially:

What part of speech is seedling?

seedling is commonly used as noun.