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SEEDLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Young plant or tree grown from a seed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("seedling" is a kind of...):
phanerogam; seed plant; spermatophyte (plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores)
Context examples:
Her hunch was borne out in the data, with elephants consuming only 3 percent of the fruit but producing 37 percent of the viable seedlings.
(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)
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