Other forms: seedlings
A seedling is a very young plant just grown from seed. Plant out the seedlings, thin the seedlings, a tray of seedlings.
The first pair of leaves is not the true leaf but the seed leaf, which looks quite different from what follows. Seedlings must be hardened off gradually before going outside or the change kills them.
1nounseedlingA very young plant just grown from seed.
“Water the tomato seedlings gently so you don't wash them out of the pots.”
seedling is a plant.
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₁- — to sow, throw
Proto-Germanic
*sēdiz
Proto-West Germanic
*sād
Old English
sēd
Middle English
seed
English
seed
English, today
seedling
Built from
From seed + -ling. seed comes from Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic sād, from Proto-Germanic sēdiz, from Proto-Indo-European seh₁- (“to sow, throw”). 2 Cognate with yol zeade (“seed”), frr sead, seed, siad, Siid, sädj, säid (“seed”), stq Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), li zaod (“seed”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sæd (“seed”), Faroese and Icelandic sáð (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 (“seed”); also Latin serō (“to sow, plant”), Latvian sēt (“to sow”), Lithuanian sėti (“to sow”), Bulgarian се́я (“to sow, plant”), Czech sít (“to sow”), mk сее (“to sow”), Polish siać (“to sow”), Russian се́ять (“to sow”), Serbo-Croatian се̏јати, sȅjati, си̏јати, sȉjati (“to sow”), Slovak siať (“to sow”), Slovene sejáti (“to sow”), Ukrainian сі́яти (“to sow”). More at sow.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA