self-seeded
- adjective
- /sɛlfˈsiːdɪd/
:
autosembrado
- And there it is, a big healthy pot of parsley that has self-seeded and grown silently.
Examples
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I love how the tomatoes self-seeded from last year's harvest, making it easy to grow new plants.
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I swear every time I plant pansies on purpose they they don't do anything but they self seed themselves outside just fine so I don't know.
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We've got some red spike amaranth self seeded from last year.
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The garden is full of vibrant flowers that have self-seeded over the past few years.
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These wildflowers often self-seeded after the first year, creating a beautiful display each spring.
Synonyms
A plant that grows from a seed that fell without being planted by people
A plant that grows from seed on its own
How Natural
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-seeded = self-seed (transparent) = self + seed + ed
The adjective is a straightforward past-participial/adjectival form of 'self-seed', which itself transparently combines 'self' + 'seed'.
Etymology
Self-seeded joins self ('by itself') and seeded from seed ('a small grain that grows into a plant'), so imagine seeds falling and making new plants on their own. That's why self-seeded means a plant that has grown naturally from its own dropped seeds without being planted.