selfed

adjective

SaySELFT/sɛlft/

2 meanings of selfed

1
adjective
Made by a plant that pollinated its own flowers instead of another plant.
Like a plant being its own parent.
The selfed tomato plants made smaller fruit this year.
Gardeners often keep seeds from selfed flowers to grow next season.
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Oppositecrossed
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2
adjective
Grown from a piece of a parent plant instead of from seeds.
Like growing a new plant from a broken-off piece of an old one.
The selfed strawberry plants grew from runners off the parent.
We planted selfed cuttings instead of buying new seedlings.
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Origin

It comes from the word "self" plus the ending "-ed".