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Seedling vs Weedling - What's the difference?

seedling | weedling |

As nouns the difference between seedling and weedling

is that seedling is (botany) a young plant grown from seed while weedling is a small weed.

As an adjective seedling

is which is a seedling (see below).

seedling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • which is a seedling (see below)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A young plant grown from seed
  • Any young, especially
  • # one grown in a nursery for transplanting
  • # a tree smaller than a sapling.

    • References

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    weedling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small weed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, title=The Mystery, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The vegetation was withered to pallid rags: even the tiniest weedling in the rock crevices had been poisoned by the devastating blast. }}
  • * 2009 , Jean Coleman, I Met Him in My Overalls (page 72)
    • In early spring, it takes time and scrutiny to decipher the newly emerging weedlings from my precious, rising seedlings.