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Definition of Self-sowed
1. Adjective. Growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-sowed
Literary usage of Self-sowed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Gardener: Or, A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing and ...by William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1829)
"... and let them then remain where they are ; and you will have abundance of
self-sowed plants every spring for renewing your bed. V 147. ENDIVE. ..."
2. Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening by Robert Morris Copeland (1860)
"... if sown as soon as ripe ; examples of which are the Acorn, self-sowed from
the Oak ; Peas and Beans, dropped from the vines while harvesting. ..."
3. The English Gardener: Or, A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing, and by William Cobbett (1845)
"... a couple of inches high, and let them then remain where they are ; and you
will have abundance of self-sowed plants every spring for renewing your bed. ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... and self-sowed daffodils toward the sea, where the waves wash against the
rock, we seem carried by a tide ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"The former passed the winter as seedlings from self-sowed seed in early autumn,
and closely hugged the frozen soil unprotected, or perchance benignly ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1891)
"The former passed the winter as seedlings from self-sowed seed in early autumn,
and closely hugged the frozen soil unprotected, or perchance benignly ..."
7. Eldorado, Or Adventures in the Path of Empire, Comprising a Voyage to by Bayard Taylor, Thomas Butler King (1854)
"The fact that oats, the species which is cultivated in the Atlantic States, are
annually self-sowed and produced on all the plains and hills along ..."
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