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weedling en · NOUN

Etymology

From weed + -ling.

Meanings

1. A small weed.
   • In early spring, it takes time and scrutiny to decipher the newly emerging weedlings from my precious, rising seedlings. 2009, Jean Coleman, I Met Him in My Overalls, page 72:
   • The vegetation was withered to pallid rags: even the tiniest weedling in the rock crevices had been poisoned by the devastating blast. 1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery:

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