weedling

English

Etymology

weed +‎ -ling

Noun

weedling (plural weedlings)

  1. A small weed.
    • 1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery‎:
      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.
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