# selfed

Pronunciation: say "SELFT" /sɛlft/

## Adjective

1. Produced by self-pollination, where a plant's own pollen fertilizes its flowers rather than pollen arriving from another individual.
   - Simple: Made by a plant that pollinated its own flowers instead of another plant.
   - _The selfed lines bred true for flower color over several generations._
   - _Researchers found the selfed offspring more uniform than naturally cross-pollinated plants._
2. Produced by vegetative propagation, growing a new plant from a cutting, root, or other plant part rather than from seed.
   - Simple: Grown from a piece of a parent plant instead of from seeds.
   - _The selfed stock matched the parent plant exactly, since no seeds were involved._
   - _Nurseries sell selfed shrubs grown from cuttings rather than from seed._

## Origin

Formed from "self" combined with the suffix "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/selfed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).