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Seedling

Meaning in agriculture, with examples

/ˈsiːdlɪŋ/nounCore term

In agriculture, seedling means: A young plant grown from seed, especially one raised in a tray or nursery before being planted out in the field or greenhouse.

In Turkish: fide, fidan

How it is used

Common in vegetable, tobacco and forestry production. Growers raise, buy and transplant seedlings and judge them by vigor, root development and freedom from disease. Grafted seedlings are widely used for tomatoes, peppers and watermelons.

Example sentences

  1. We bought 30,000 grafted tomato seedlings from a nursery in Antalya.

  2. The seedlings are ready to transplant when they have four or five true leaves.

Common collocations

  • raise seedlings
  • grafted seedling
  • seedling tray
  • seedling nursery
  • healthy seedlings
  • transplantTo move a young plant from the tray or nursery where it was raised and plant it in the field or greenhouse where it will grow to maturity.
  • greenhouseA building with a glass or plastic cover in which plants are grown under controlled temperature, humidity and light, often out of season.
  • germinationThe process in which a seed starts to grow and sends out a root and a shoot, once it has enough water, warmth and oxygen.
  • growing mediumThe material in which plants grow instead of or in addition to soil, such as peat, perlite, coco peat or rockwool, used in pots, trays and greenhouse beds.
  • seedThe small part of a plant from which a new plant grows; in farming, also the grain or material kept or bought for sowing.

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