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Meanings of self-sown in English
Growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds.
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Examples for "self-seeded"
Examples for "self-seeded"
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The following year, a new crop of self-seeded wheat appeared.
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It is studded with self-seeded oxeye daisies, and the peacock butterfly caterpillars are gobbling up my stinging nettles.
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The garden is 300 square metres garden and is now dominated by fruit trees with self-seeded veges and herbs underneath.
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Once neglected and unused, it is now decorated with native saplings, snake's head fritillaries, primroses and self-seeded plants such as honesty.
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A field left like that self-seeded enough to produce a second crop, thin and patchy and weedy but a thousand times more valuable than gold.
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We made up a bed of these self-sowed in fall of 1915.
Usage of self-sown in English
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On the left, the self-sown firs grow in close ranks.
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There were self-sown wheat-fields and vines growing there.
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They had found self-sown corn too, probably maize.
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It's all self-sown -we had no hand in it other than to leave them to seed.
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In very many instances, seed, of course, self-sown has become rooted and grown vigorously on unplowed land.
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The desolation of that garden, choked with weeds and a wild growth of self-sown crops, is indescribable.
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It was 1987 and botanist Dr Wilson suggested gorse would be the perfect cover to protect self-sown native seedlings.
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Some trees, such as self-sown sycamores that have become monsters simply through lack of early remedial action, are obvious examples.
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They had samples of self-sown grain, too, and the skins of animals which they had trapped or shot with bows.
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This ditch or drain, now smooth and greyish-green with bent and self-sown saplings, is still known as the Sapper's Cut.
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Round each colossus a crowd of wild and self-sown saplings had grown up, thicket-like with the entanglement of their young shoots.
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Most of the trees on the side of Chanctonbury and its neighbours were self-sown, children of the clumps which Mr. Goring planted.
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The whole surface of the streets, except narrow footpaths, were overrun with self-sown indigo, and tons of it might have been collected.
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Here self-sown magenta petunias made banks of colour against the old brick walls, and the evening light, just turning rosy, fell thereon.
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One of the joys of hand-weeding, as opposed to scraping around with a hoe, is that you come across self-sown seedlings of favourite plants.
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Oats of the kind grown on the Atlantic grow luxuriantly and wild, self-sown on all the hills of the coast, furnishing abundant supplies for horses.