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 Definitions for Seed: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Seed \Seed\ (s[=e]d), n.; pl. Seed or Seeds. [OE. seed, sed,
AS. s[=ae]d, fr. s[=a]wan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G.
saat, Icel. s[=a][eth], sae[eth]i, Goth. manas[=e][thorn]s
seed of men, world. See Sow to scatter seed, and cf.
Colza.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or
more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a
currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
(b) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a
pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper;
as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself. --Gen. i. 11.
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Note: The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and
within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is
either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the
albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of
the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where
the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the
closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle.
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2. (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm;
-- not used in the plural.
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3. That from which anything springs; first principle;
original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
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4. The principle of production.
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Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed,
Which may the like in coming ages breed. --Waller.
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5. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of
Abraham; the seed of David.
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Note: In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to
any number collectively, and admits of the plural form,
though rarely used in the plural.
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6. Race; generation; birth.
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Of mortal seed they were not held. --Waller.
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Seed bag (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation
of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag
encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which
swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and
the sides of the hole.
Seed bud (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the
embryo state; the ovule.
Seed coat (Bot.), the covering of a seed.
Seed corn, or Seed grain (Bot.), corn or grain for seed.
To eat the seed corn, To eat the corn which should be saved
for seed, so as to forestall starvation; -- a desparate
measure, since it only postpones disaster. Hence: any
desparate action which creates a disastrous situation in
the long-term, done in order to provide temporary relief.
Seed down (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as
cotton seed.
Seed drill. See 6th Drill, 2
(a) .
Seed eater (Zool.), any finch of the genera Sporophila,
and Crithagra. They feed mainly on seeds.
Seed gall (Zool.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed
on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species
of Phylloxera.
Seed leaf (Bot.), a cotyledon.
Seed lobe (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf.
Seed oil, oil expressed from the seeds of plants.
Seed oyster, a young oyster, especially when of a size
suitable for transplantation to a new locality.
Seed pearl, a small pearl of little value.
Seed plat, or Seed plot, the ground on which seeds are
sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery.
Seed stalk (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a
funicle.
Seed tick (Zool.), one of several species of ticks
resembling seeds in form and color.
Seed vessel (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains the
seeds; a pericarp.
Seed weevil (Zool.), any one of numerous small weevils,
especially those of the genus Apion, which live in the
seeds of various plants.
Seed wool, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Seed \Seed\, v. i.
1. To sow seed.
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2. To shed the seed. --Mortimer.
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3. To grow to maturity, and to produce seed.
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Many interests have grown up, and seeded, and
twisted their roots in the crevices of many wrongs.
--Landor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Seed \Seed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seeded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Seeding.]
1. To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to
seed a field.
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2. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with
seedlike decorations.
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A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes. --B. Jonson.
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To seed down, to sow with grass seed.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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seed
n 1: a small hard fruit
2: a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and
its food source and having a protective coat or testa
3: one of the outstanding players in a tournament [syn: {seeded
player}]
4: anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: source,
germ]
5: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is
ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, {seminal
fluid}, ejaculate, cum]
v 1: go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed"
2: help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by
providing seed money
3: bear seeds
4: place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She
sowed sunflower seeds" [syn: sow, sough]
5: distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or
players will not meet in the early rounds
6: sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause
rain; "seed clouds"
7: inoculate with microorganisms
8: remove the seeds from; "seed grapes"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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157 Moby Thesaurus words for "seed":
Anlage, acorn, affiliation, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid,
apparentation, basis, bed, berry, bird seed, birth, blood,
bloodline, branch, breed, broadcast, brood, bud, bulb, cause,
children, common ancestry, conceit, concept, conception,
consanguinity, core, corm, decay, decline, degenerate, derivation,
descendants, descent, deteriorate, dibble, direct line,
disseminate, distaff side, distribute, drill, egg, embryo,
extraction, family, female line, filiation, flaxseed, forest,
fruit, germ, germen, go downhill, go to pot, grain, grandchildren,
great-grandchildren, grounds, hayseed, heirs, hostages to fortune,
house, image, implant, impression, inheritors, inseminate, issue,
kernel, kids, line, line of descent, lineage, linseed, little ones,
loins, male gamete, male line, milt, motivation, motive,
new generation, notion, nucleus, nut, offspring, origin, ovule,
ovum, phylum, pip, pit, pitch, plant, pollen, posterity, pot,
progeniture, progeny, protein, provocation, put in, race, reason,
reforest, reset, retimber, rising generation, root, rudiment,
run down, scatter, scatter seed, scum, seed down, semen,
seminal fluid, seminate, sept, set, side, sons, source, sow,
sow broadcast, spark, spear side, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium,
spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium,
spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa,
spermatozoid, spermatozoon, spindle side, spore, stem, stirps,
stock, stone, strain, succession, successors, sword side,
transplant, treasures, tuber, young, younglings, youngsters
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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SEEDS. The substance which nature prepares for the reproduction of plants or
animals.
2. Seeds which have been sown in the earth immediately become a part of
the land in which they have been sown; quae sata solo cedere intelliguntur.
Inst. 2, 1, 32.
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