SEED
\sˈiːd], \sˈiːd], \s_ˈiː_d]\
Definitions of SEED
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
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help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
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one of the outstanding players in a tournament
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a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
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a small hard fruit
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inoculate with microorganisms
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sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds"
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go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed"
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remove the seeds from; "seed grapes"
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place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds"
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bear seeds
By Princeton University
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the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
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help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
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one of the outstanding players in a tournament
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a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
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a small hard fruit
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remove the seeds form, as of grapes
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inoculate with microorganisms
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sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds"
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distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds; as of a tennis or golf player
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go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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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That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
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The principle of production.
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Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
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To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
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To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
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The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; - not used in the plural.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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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That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
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The principle of production.
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Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
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To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
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To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
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The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; - not used in the plural.
By Noah Webster.
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The encapsulated embryos of flowering plants. They are used as is or for animal feed because of the high content of concentrated nutrients like starches, proteins, and fats. Rapeseed, cottonseed, and sunflower seed are also produced for the oils (fats) they yield.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That part of a plant, the ovule, that holds the embryo, or life-containing germ, of the future plant; any small, seedlike fruit; source; that from which anything springs; offspring; descendants.
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To go to seed.
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To sprinkle with seed, as a lawn; sow; to remove the seeds from, as raisins.
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Seeder.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The reproductive body of a flowering plant, the mature ovule. 2. In bacteriology, to inoculate a culture medium with microorganisms.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The thing sown: the substance produced by plants and animals from which new plants and animals are generated: first principle: original: descendants.
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To produce seed.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The germ from which a plant may be reproduced; that from which anything springs; a first principle; source.
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Offspring; children.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The organism, animal or vegetable, which nature prepares for the reproduction and conservation of the species; that from which anything springs; first principle; original; principle of production; progeny; offspring; race; generation.
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To sow; to sprinkle with seed.
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To grow to maturity; to bring forth or shed seed.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That part of a plant which contains the rudiment or embryo of the future plant; that peculiar secretion in animals by which the ova is vitalised; that from which anything springs; offspring; descendants; race; very much used in composition as an adjective.
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To grow to maturity and produce seed; to shed seed.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
