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a plant betting its whole life savings on the kindness of dirt.
means A young plant grown from a seed, in its early and tender stage before it matures.
from A straightforward English compound: "seed" plus the diminutive suffix "-ling," the same little tag that turns a duck into a duckling and a goose into a gosling. "Seed" traces back to Old English "sǣd," rooted in the same ancient source as "sow," while "-ling" is a Germanic suffix marking smallness or offspring. So a seedling is, quite literally, a "little thing of seed."
- raw power
- Sprouts crack concrete with cells pushing relentlessly upward.
- food stash
- Lives on packed lunch sealed inside the seed.
- light hunt
- Bends toward light via hormone called auxin.
- ancient sprout
- A 2,000-year-old date seed germinated in 2005.
- survival odds
- Most seedlings die before reaching adulthood.
for instance
mighty mouse tomato seedling — dwarf tomato variety that grows to only 6-12 inches, developed by university of new hampshire in 2009