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  • noun Plural form of seedling.

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Examples

  • I heard one of the background people in the movie mention "seedlings"--there's Romanticism for you, believing in summer in the middle of a Minnesota winter.

    Prompt of the Week: Books Fresca 2010

  • I always hope the seedlings are the good roses, but they never are.

    Rose Seeds « Fairegarden 2010

  • The transplanting of the seedlings is the hard part.

    Greenhouse/Sunroom Of Plenty « Fairegarden 2009

  • We love it and the discovery of the seedlings was a message from the garden fairies to use it in the new bed and possibly elsewhere.

    Faireluriegarden-Someday « Fairegarden 2009

  • It may seem like the seedlings are your children, but they're not.

    Michael Pollan and growing your own food scusteister 2008

  • Warmth that called seedlings out of the earth, and the fire that burned them where they grew.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • So Hasa brushed red dust that was actually emukawa hyphae from Masurathoo's sloping shoulders, Jemunu-jah picked needle-rooted bohlaka seedlings from Hasa's bald pate before they could take root, and Masurathoo delicately and somewhat tentatively groomed the fur on the Sakuntala's back in search of arthropoidal flyers who sought to lay their eggs therein.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • So Hasa brushed red dust that was actually emukawa hyphae from Masurathoo's sloping shoulders, Jemunu-jah picked needle-rooted bohlaka seedlings from Hasa's bald pate before they could take root, and Masurathoo delicately and somewhat tentatively groomed the fur on the Sakuntala's back in search of arthropoidal flyers who sought to lay their eggs therein.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Once the seedlings are a few centimetres tall you may have to pull some of them out and throw them away to give the others more room.

    7.1 General recommendations 1995

  • In some cases, this type of harrow can be run over the actual crop rows from several days after planting up until the seedlings are a few centimeters tall to control early geminating weeds or to break up any soil crusting.

    Chapter 8 1981

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