'seedling' is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to refer to a young plant in an early stage of development. For example, you might say, "The farmer tended to the new seedlings in his garden every morning."
When the researchers looked at the seedling tissues under an electron microscope, however, they could see the nanotubes had actually entered living cells.
I have seen every edible bush and seedling browsed, first to anaemic desuetude, and then to death.
Abundant seed is carried by wind on to the cleared land and gives rise, in a few years, to a full crop of seedling firs.
The seedling rapidly develops a flesh taproot and root growth.
Many smut fungi enter embryos or seedling plants, develop systemically, and appear externally only when the plants are near maturity.
While care must be exercised to shield the tree from many chemicals, compounds are available that kill unwanted vegetation but do not harm the tree seedling.
He learned gardening there, helping his mother prick out seedlings as a child, and found he never wanted to do anything else.
They strained after light and water and struggled to cope with stress, of the sort that had made his soya seedlings drastically shed their leaves.
The vegetation detritus protects seedlings when they are most vulnerable to the ravages of nature, but it also lowers the soil surface temperature and limits the practicality of using the till-less system in some areas to warmer regions or to plant varieties suited to cooler seedling-growing conditions.
Ayabu said the school asked for the seedlings given the poor state of the school grounds.
Stephen Omoko, coordinator of Soroti secondary's Connecting Classrooms programme, delivered the seedlings to Katine.
