Plantling

Origin

From plant + -ling.

Full definition of plantling

Noun

1. A small, young, or miniature plant.
• 1992, M.R. Ahuja, Micropropagation of Woody Plants:Thus, the scheme described above is cost effective, with small numbers of high-cost plantlings being used to produce very large numbers of lower cost stecklings . An alternative is to use 100 percent plantlings.