Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disseminated without the intervention of human or animal agency; in common usage, sown by any agency other than man.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds
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Examples
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Dead hedges of olive prunings were woven along the tops of the walls, and self-sown figs grew from between the stones.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Flanking the path (which varies in width along the meandering nine-block route now open, up to West 20th Street) are planting beds meant to evoke the lush, self-sown greenery that thrived on the High Line during its three decades of desuetude.
Up in the Park Filler, Martin 2009
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Dead hedges of olive prunings were woven along the tops of the walls, and self-sown figs grew from between the stones.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Fields of self-sown wheat and vines were growing there; also, there were trees known as maple, and they took specimens of all of them.
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Having no stableboy or carter or quarryman — her husband had made them do every kind of work — she no longer kept up the garden; she only gathered the few greens and roots that the stony ground allowed to grow self-sown.
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Back in 1997 my dh cut down a little self-sown pine in our front yard that had grown too close to our foundation and we decided to use that one.
Archive 2007-12-01 appleleaf 2007
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Back in 1997 my dh cut down a little self-sown pine in our front yard that had grown too close to our foundation and we decided to use that one.
O, Christmas Tree, O, Christmas Tree! appleleaf 2007
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While we were employed in these operations, some of the poor starved people about had been in the habit of crossing the river, and reaping the self-sown mapira, in the old gardens of their countrymen.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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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.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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There had always been lilies there, self-sown from wind-dropped seed, floating red and white on the green plates of their leaves.
Between the Acts 2004
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