weedling
nounEtymology From weed + -ling.
1
A small weed.
- The vegetation was withered to pallid rags: even the tiniest weedling in the rock crevices had been poisoned by the devastating blast.1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery:
- In early spring, it takes time and scrutiny to decipher the newly emerging weedlings from my precious, rising seedlings.2009, Jean Coleman, I Met Him in My Overalls, page 72: