What's the difference between plant and seedling?

Plant


Definition:

  • (n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
  • (n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
  • (n.) The sole of the foot.
  • (n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
  • (n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
  • (n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
  • (n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
  • (n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
  • (n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
  • (n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
  • (n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
  • (n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
  • (n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
  • (n.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
  • (n.) To set up; to install; to instate.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of planting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) A phytochemical investigation of an ethanolic extract of the whole plant of Echites hirsuta (Apocynaceae) resulted in the isolation and identification of the flavonoids naringenin, aromadendrin (dihydrokaempferol), and kaempferol; the coumarin fraxetin; the triterpene ursolic acid; and the sterol glycoside sitosteryl glucoside.
  • (3) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
  • (4) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
  • (5) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (6) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
  • (7) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (8) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
  • (9) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
  • (10) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (11) One example of this increased data generation is the emergence of genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform before field testing.
  • (12) The effects of lowering the temperature from 25 degrees C to 2-8 degrees C on carbohydrate metabolism by plant cells are considered.
  • (13) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
  • (14) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (15) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
  • (16) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
  • (17) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
  • (18) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
  • (19) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
  • (20) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.

Seedling


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In aqueous solution, N-substituted isoxazolin-5-one derivatives, which occur in high amounts in seedlings of the tribe Vicieae, can be shown to undergo a proton exchange at C-4, indicative of their aromatic character.
  • (2) The PKABA1 transcript can also be induced by supplying low concentrations of ABA, and coordinate increases in ABA levels and PKABA1 mRNA occur when seedlings are water-stressed.
  • (3) Most definitive results were obtained when seedlings were ground in the presence of sand and in a medium containing sorbitol.
  • (4) Germinal excisions resulted in fully green seedlings.
  • (5) There were no detectable differences in the patterns of histone variants from immature grain (3-16 days after fertilization), from mature embryos, from coleoptiles and roots of 4-day-old, etiolated seedlings and from leaves of 10-day-old, light-grown seedlings.
  • (6) The maximal level as well as the kinetics of the induction were comparable between the suspension culture and soybean seedlings.
  • (7) Thirty-day-old corn seedlings, grown in the greenhouse with different concentrations of supplemental nitrate nitrogen, were moved to a constant-temperature growth chamber and sealed in a 560-liter tent made of polyvinyl chloride.
  • (8) The biological effect of vibration of Lactuca sativa dry seeds and seedlings cultivated at optimal (20 degrees C) and suboptimal (4 degrees C) temperatures was studied.
  • (9) The mRNAs begin to accumulate during late embryogeny, reach maximal levels in seedling cotyledons, are not detected at significant amounts in leaves, and are distributed similarly in cotyledons and axes of seedlings.
  • (10) Experiments involving one of the clear pathogenicity mutants indicated that the recovery of mutant cells from turnip seedlings 24 hr after inoculation was lower than for the wild type.
  • (11) The fourteenth case in the literature of lacrimal sac melanoma and possibly the first by tear seedling is illustrated.
  • (12) The development of PSII complex precedes that of PSI during the differentiation of B and M chloroplasts in expanding leaves of light-grown plants and during the greening of dark-grown etiolated seedlings.
  • (13) Hormone-like activity and efficiency of nitrate uptake by rice seedlings were stimulated by EAB and HEf, while HSp showed only negligible activity.
  • (14) Short pulses of red light induce in etiolated barley seedlings an enhanced synthesis of plastidic benzoquinones and vitamin K1, which can be reverted by subsequent irradiation with short pulses of far-red.
  • (15) The diurnal fluctuation in Cat3 mRNA persists when the seedlings are transferred to continuous light or darkness, which indicates the influence of a circadian rhythm.
  • (16) RNA blot analysis showed that HPR transcript levels rise significantly in the first eight days of light-grown seedling development.
  • (17) The results indicated that the mutant contains wild-type levels of the light-labile type 1 phytochrome polypeptide (PHYA), which has an apparent molecular mass of approximately 120 kD, but shows less than 1% (detection limit) of a light-stable polypeptide recognized by mAT1 in wild-type seedlings.
  • (18) A second category of 13 clones hybridized to transcripts that increased in abundance during post-germinative development of the seedling.
  • (19) CG-1 activity is constitutively expressed in tobacco seedlings grown in the absence of ultraviolet light as well as in seedlings induced for chalcone synthase gene expression by ultraviolet light irradiation.
  • (20) The oil was found non-phytotoxic to the seedling growth and seed germination of wheat.