🌱 Seedling
A seedling, or a young plant, as a newly sprouted tree. Depicted as a tiny, light-green plant with a short stem and two leaves. Often shown freshly sprung from a small mound of brown earth. May be used for various content concerning plant life. May also be used as a symbol of spring or representation of various types of new growth. Not to be confused with 🌿 Herb, though their applications may overlap. Facebook’s seedling previously had three leaves.
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🌱 Seedling
Also known as: Spring, Sprout, Sprouting
Unicode: U+1F331
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1.0
Unicode Version:
6.0
Keywords
seedling young
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| github | :seedling: | |
| slack | :seedling: | |
| discord | :seedling: |
How It’s Used in Language
Verbs
- To cause to grow from a seed.
- Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
Nouns
- A seedling is a young plant sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed.
- A young plant grown from seed
- The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons.
- Young plant or tree grown from a seed
- Young plants after germination from seeds (sometimes also referred to as sprouts)
- Young plant grown from seed.
- Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom, following winter and preceding summer.
- The season of growth
- The season of spring.
- Season, between winter and summer
- One of the four temperate seasons
- The season of spring, between winter and summer.