Self-sown Definition

selfsōn
adjective
Sown by wind, water, or other natural means, as some weeds, instead of by people or an animal.
Webster's New World
Not deliberately planted but just growing, often in a garden from wild seed - usually refers to domestic plants and to plants that have escaped and become naturalised.
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Synonyms:
  • self-seeded
  • self-sowed

Self-sown Sentence Examples

  • In central Scotland, forests occur of Pinus sylvestris; and, in south-eastern England, extensive plantations and self-sown woods occur of the same species.

  • Here they found the "self-sown" wheatfields and vines of Leif's Vinland, and here accordingly they settled and built their huts above the lake (1004-1005).

  • As on his outward voyage, Leif was again driven far out of his course by contrary weather - this time to lands (in America) "of which he had previously had no knowledge," where "self-sown" wheat grew, and vines, and "m&sur" (maple?) wood.

  • This expedition, too, found "grapes and self-sown wheat," though seemingly not in any great abundance.

  • The "self-sown wheat" of the sagas he identifies as strand wheat, instead of Indian corn, or wild rice, and the mdsur trees as the canoe birch.

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