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adj. - Growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds.

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  • In many gardens plants appear year after year from self-sown seeds, and it will therefore be evident that
  • And the second day they were deep in open fields where patches of self-sown grain rippled ripely under the sun.
  • He ate as he went, berries and handfuls of ripe grain pulled from the ragged self-sown patches in the old fields.
  • It descends the river valleys for some distance into the plains and is planted or self-sown in many parts of India and Pakistan.
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