seedling

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: seed=ling

CIDE DICTIONARY

seedling, n. 

 A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

seedling, n. a young plant, esp. one raised from seed and not from a cutting etc.

THESAURUS

seedling

amphibian, angiosperm, annual, aquatic plant, biennial, conifer, cosmopolite, cutting, deciduous plant, dicot, dicotyledon, ephemeral, evergreen, exotic, flowering plant, fruit tree, fungus, gametophyte, gymnosperm, hardwood tree, hydrophyte, monocot, monocotyl, perennial, plant, pollard, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, sapling, scion, seed plant, set, shade tree, shoot, slip, softwood tree, spermatophyte, sporophyte, sprig, sprout, sucker, thallophyte, timber, timber tree, tree, triennial, twig, vascular plant, vegetable, weed

ROGET THESAURUS

seedling

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.