Illustration: At a small vegetable plot beside a Japanese house, a gardener lifts a young tomato plant from a nursery tray. Its slender stem carries only a few leaves, and a compact plug of soil reveals fine young roots.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

苗なえ

nae

seedling

Example sentences

苗なえは若わかい植物しょくぶつです。
Seedlings are young plants.
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彼かれは種たねからトマトの苗なえを育そだてた。
He raised tomato plants from seed.
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冬ふゆの間まは苗なえを鉢植はちうえにする。
The young plants are potted during the winter.
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Kanji in 苗

苗seedling; saplingOnビョウ・ミョウKunなえ・なわ-

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