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self-sown

[ self-sohn ]

adjective

  1. sown by itself, or without human or animal agency, as of a plant grown from seeds dropped from another plant.
  2. sown by any agency other than humans, as of a plant grown from seeds scattered by birds or the wind.


self-sown

adjective

  1. (of plants) growing from seed dispersed by any means other than by the agency of man or animals Alsoself-seeded
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-sown1

First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences

Said of introduced plants which are reproducing by self-sown seeds.

This was cut at its best marketable maturity, and the present young wood is made of what came up self-sown.

For the fruit of mere lust comes to naught, even as corn, self-sown out of season, ripens not.

They found there self-sown wheat-fields where there were lowlands, and grapevines wherever hills showed themselves.

The desolation of that garden, choked with weeds and a wild growth of self-sown crops, is indescribable.

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