seedling

«seedling» in Mova's school dictionary: a very young plant that has just grown from a seed — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a seedling, seedlings)

meaning for a pupil

1) A seedling is a very young plant that has just grown from a seed. tree →

2) A seedling has its first small leaves and needs light, water and care to grow strong. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils grow seedlings from beans or cress to learn about germination and what plants need: water, light, warmth and soil. In gardening, seedlings are planted out when big enough. Phrases: «plant out the seedlings», «water the seedlings», «grow seedlings».

examples

• Our bean seedlings grew two centimetres this week. tree →
• Water the seedlings gently. tree →
• The seedlings on the dark shelf were pale and thin. tree →
• We planted the tomato seedlings in the garden. tree →
• A seedling grows from a seed. tree →
• Slugs ate our lettuce seedlings overnight. tree →

note

Countable: seedling, seedlings. «-ling» means small or young (duckling, gosling). In a science table you can record a seedling's height each day and find how much it grew: later height − earlier height.

In the corpora

• Every Granny Smith tree comes from one seedling found in Australia around 1868 by Maria Ann Smith.
• A bean plant's life cycle is seed, seedling, adult plant with flowers, and pods with new seeds.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «seedling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.