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Definition of Self-sown
1. Adjective. Growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-sown
Literary usage of Self-sown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"At present this grove does not recruit itself by self-sown seedlings, which are
all destroyed by goats, but appears destined to diminish slowly by the death ..."
2. Remarks on Forest Scenery, and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"estate of Duhamel du Monceau, and young plants, the produce of self sown seeds,
are found in the vicinity. It is, therefore, one of the exotic trees which ..."
3. Eastern England: From the Thames to the Humber by Walter White (1865)
"... A Lesson in Scarifying—Rustic Engineers—The Drainer—self-sown Crop—A Drive to
Dunmow—Clover and Bees—Tusser again—Little Dunmow — The old Priory—Matilda ..."
4. Isaiah: With Notes, Critical, Explanatory and Practical by Henry Cowles (1869)
"Now in the forty-ninth year some grain would grow, self-sown, from the scattered
seed of the previous year's harvest; and again, on the fiftieth year, ..."
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