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seed
  1. (countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
  2. (botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
  3. (uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
  4. (countable) A precursor.
  5. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
    1. The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
    2. The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
    3. Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
    4. Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
  6. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
  7. Race; generation; birth.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “In maize, as in all flowering plants, the seed develops inside a coat of maternal origin.”
      “They opened up a space for cultivated literary uses, which, after being successively expanded, served as the seed of the contemporary Catalan literary system.”
      “The key is that the promise was made to Abraham and to his seed, that is, to one seed, to one offspring.”
seeder
  1. (agriculture) A device used to plant seeds; a seed drill
  2. An implement used to remove the seeds from fruit etc.
  3. A person who seeds clouds in order to make it rain
  4. (Internet) A person connected to a peer-to-peer network who has a complete or partial copy of a given file and makes it available for downloading.
  5. (computing) A process that seeds a random number generator.
  6. Examples:
    1. “One is the traditional pattern of planting in which the tractor-drawn seeder is driven back and forth along the field, up and down every row.”
      “They indicate that rye can be applied aerially or seeded using a high-clearance tractor with a seeder to clear the fern.”
      “To speed the planting pace, the family bought into a host of new technology with the seeder.”
seedbox
  1. A box in which seeds are planted.
  2. (Internet) A private server used for uploading and downloading files.
  3. (botany) A capsule.
  4. A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) with somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.
  5. Examples:
    1. “Land Pride seeders protect falling seed by offering watertight seedbox lids, wind guards and low seed drop.”
      “Habeas' real-time seedbox monitoring data will be integrated directly into the EmailLabs Campaign Reports, allowing clients to view inbox vs.”
seedhouse
  1. A business that specializes in selling seeds, especially one that operates via mail order.
  2. A building that is used for storing seeds.
seedcorn
  1. corn (wheat etc) that, instead of being milled, is retained for seed.
  2. (economics) Financial assets set aside for the generation of future profits.
  3. Examples:
    1. “What we had to do was to demonstrate that this was seedcorn, and that the money invested in the genome was money well spent.”
      “It is a trap similar to the one that peasants enter when they feed seedcorn to their starving children.”
      “Selectively chosen, these customers are the seedcorn of the future.”
seedeater
  1. (literally) An individual or species which eats seeds.
  2. A bird species which feeds mainly on seeds.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The are also important breeding colonies of birds in this area including the blue swallow, Denham's bustard, Njombe cisticola and Kipengere seedeater.”
      “Rufous-capped warbler and white-collared seedeater from Webb County, Texas.”
      “The white-collared seedeater, is a very small, black and white finch about 11 cm in total length.”
seedtime
  1. The time to sow seeds.
  2. (figuratively) A time for new development.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not a seedtime of character?”
      “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
      “But in the few precious weeks of seedtime, every day, every hour is of moment.”
seedbed
  1. Ground prepared for the planting of seeds.
  2. (figuratively) A place conducive to fulfillment.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Pre-irrigation can also provide ideal soil-water content in the seedbed so that uniform germination begins soon after seeding.”
      “Vernon gave an account of how New York, at the time, served as a seedbed of innovation and entrepreneurial activity.”
      “It was rightly recognized as the seedbed of rational medicine, even after the original methods had been discarded, forgotten, and misunderstood by the medicine which grew up around its foundation.”
seedling
  1. (botany) A young plant grown from seed
  2. Any young plant, especially
    1. one grown in a nursery for transplanting
    2. a tree smaller than a sapling.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The longer a seedling takes to emerge, the greater the possibility of stand loss to crusting, disease, insects, and rodents.”
      “The alb1 mutation is recessive and homozygous albino plants are white and die at the seedling stage.”
      “This is useful to control weeds and aerate the soil, which helps deter seedling diseases.”
seedness
  1. (rare) The state or quality of being seed.
  2. (obsolete) Seedtime.
seedsman
  1. One who sows seeds.
  2. A dealer in seed.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “It may be that your father buys his seed corn from a seedsman.”
      “One of the very real problems a seedsman has, for example, is in recommending a grass to the man who doesn't know what a sunny lawn is.”
      “The seedsman knows just what to do to secure the best results in seed, and just how to do it.”
seedhead
  1. A part of certain plants that bears the seeds after flowering, as in the dandelion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The seedhead of slender wild oat is very attenuated and from it projects a long awn that looks like an antenna from a large insect.”
      “Once these brown discs are removed, the silvery-white central circular seedhead makes an elegant dried display.”
      “Macropodids may take small berries or seedheads entirely into the mouth, grip the stalk, and pluck off the seedhead against the upper or lower incisors.”
seedlot
  1. (agriculture) A particular batch of seeds, often collected from a specific zone (the seedzone).
seedline
  1. A familial line of descent that can be traced to a certain seed.
seedcase
  1. (botany) A pouch-like structure of a plant that encloses the seeds.
seedzone
  1. (agriculture) A specific geographical area from which seeds are collected.
seedlep
  1. (obsolete) A basket or other device used for carrying seed while sowing.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The seed was cast on the ground from seed-cod or seedlep, the latter word being still used.”
seededness
  1. The condition of being, or the extent to which something has been seeded
seedpod
  1. (botany) A pouch-like form on a plant which encloses the seeds.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Across his shoulders and around his neck is a protective nubbly covering, possibly derived from a seedpod found on the forest floor.”
      “Half a millennium ago, perhaps, a settler from Zanzibar or East Africa had brought a seedpod here and planted it in a rare patch of wet soil.”
      “Perennial honesty has pointed oval seedpod partitions and pale purple flowers.”
seeding
seedset
  1. (biology) A set of seeds from the same organism.
seednut
  1. A nut that functions as a seed.
seedman
  1. Alternative form of seedsman
  2. Examples:
    1. “A nursery taking up 10 acres on the Warwick Road in 1880 was run by John Stevens, who described himself as a nurseryman, seedman and florist.”
      “Christopher Max Deering extended the lead to 2-0 in the 57th minute, scoring off a Lucas Dall'Orso header following a Seedman corner kick.”
      “There was only one way designer Michael Seedman was going to beat his on at the video game Guitar Hero, he was going to have to cheat.”
seede
  1. Obsolete spelling of seed
seedlessness
  1. Absence of seeds.
seedcod
  1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A seedlep.
  2. Synonyms:
seedeaters
seedhouses
  1. plural of seedhouse
seedsmen
  1. plural of seedsman
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This section provides useful information to collectors, handlers, seedsmen and nursery managers.”
      “The seedsmen claim this will form a compact yet spreading plant, although that sounds contradictory.”
      “The seedsmen claim that this has an improved range of colours.”
seedcases
  1. plural of seedcase
seedheads
  1. plural of seedhead
seedlings
  1. plural of seedling
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Now that soil is thoroughly warm, newly planted melon seedlings should thrive.”
      “I have repotted the coriander seedlings, which are still winning the prize for most vigorous specimens, and which have ace roots.”
      “Plant seedlings of basil, chives, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, and thyme.”
seedtimes
seedzones
  1. plural of seedzone
seedlines
  1. plural of seedline
seedmen
  1. plural of seedman
seedcods
seednuts
  1. plural of seednut
seedpods
  1. plural of seedpod
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The hips of shrub roses make a colorful display, while southern magnolia has large seedpods with glowing red berries.”
      “Sourwood decks itself with pendulous seedpods, and hazelnut displays dangling catkins in early spring.”
      “The annatto tree is quite pretty, with big green leaves and bright red, prickly seedpods.”
seedbeds
  1. plural of seedbed
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Cool, wet, seedbeds resulting in delayed germination may warrant including an insecticide seed treatment.”
      “On conventionally prepared seedbeds, brassica seed can be broadcast and incorporated with cultipacking.”
      “Harsh, high-elevation burn areas provide excellent seedbeds for this species.”
seedings
seedleps
seedlots
  1. plural of seedlot
seedsets
  1. plural of seedset
seedboxes
  1. plural of seedbox
seeders
  1. plural of seeder
seedes
  1. plural of seede
seeds
  1. plural of seed
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They are also found in nuts like peanuts, walnuts, cashews as well as in seeds and fish.”
      “With early farmers came seeds, some imported intentionally but others carried over unwittingly in animal fodder and packing.”
      “Field edge paths have fancy dandelions, namely goats beard, broadcasting their large clocks of seeds.”
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