seedling

English

Etymology

seed +‎ -ling

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsiːdlɪŋ/

Noun

seedling (plural seedlings)

(botany) A young plant grown from seed.
Any young plant, especially:
1. one grown in a nursery for transplanting.
2. a tree smaller than a sapling.

Synonyms

chit

Translations

young plant grown from seed

Arabic: شَتْلَة‎ f (šatla)
Armenian: տունկ (hy) (tunk), շիվ (hy) (šiv)
Bashkir: үҫенте (üθente)
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
Hungarian: hajtás (hu)
Italian: germoglio (it) m
Japanese: 実生 (みしょう, mishō)

Kannada: ಸಸಿ (kn) (sasi), ಸಣ್ಣಗಿಡ (kn) (saṇṇagiḍa), ಮೊಳಕೆ (kn) (moḷake), ಬೀಜಾಂಕುರ (kn) (bījāṅkura)
Latvian: stāds m
Macedonian: расад m (rásad), садница f (sádnica)
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)

References

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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