weedling

English

Etymology

From weed +‎ -ling.

Noun

weedling (plural weedlings)

1. A small weed.
   • 1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery‎:

     The vegetation was withered to pallid rags: even the tiniest weedling in the rock crevices had been poisoned by the devastating blast.

   • 2009, Jean Coleman, I Met Him in My Overalls, page 72:

     In early spring, it takes time and scrutiny to decipher the newly emerging weedlings from my precious, rising seedlings.