SEEDLING in a Sentence

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He had kept sternly at bay those two enemies of Georgia planters, the seedling pine and the blackberry brambles.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEEDLING
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seedling
 n.  young plant or tree grown from seed; produced from seed
Classic Sentence:
1  The big house burned a year ago and the fields are growing up in brush and seedling pine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Pine Bloom looked straggly and overgrown with weeds, seedling pines were beginning to show in the fields and the house was sagging and untidy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  He knew his slaves were free now and the farm gone to weeds and seedling pines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  He had kept sternly at bay those two enemies of Georgia planters, the seedling pine and the blackberry brambles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  The sandbars, with their clean white beaches and their little groves of willows and cottonwood seedlings, were a sort of No Man's Land, little newly created worlds that belonged to the Black Hawk boys.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
Example Sentence:
1  She plans to sell this native cherry seedling online.
2  Farmers will be able to seed it directly, rather than having to transplant seedlings.