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Definition of Self-seeded
1. Adjective. Growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-seeded
Literary usage of Self-seeded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1894)
"... the plant must reach a certain age before rust develops to any great extent
upon it. Thus this year rust first appeared on self-seeded plants fully ten ..."
2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1885)
"... in fields of what is commonly called "volunteer" grain, ie, self-seeded.
Some of the locusts remained in these fields for two weeks after the grain had ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"Furthermore, as if in defiance, the self-seeded flowers straggling down the rocky
bank and practically uncared for bloom even more ..."
4. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1857)
"The self-seeded acres are beautiful in appearance— wheat as high as one's waist ;
the sown is mostly up, but it is too early to speak of its promise. more ..."
5. Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic by Harold Bayley (1920)
"From Newlands Corner where the yews—the self-seeded descendants of immemorial
ancestors—are thickly dotted, is a prospect unsurpassed in England. ..."
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