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SEED
semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come
(noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
source, seed, germ
(noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work
seed
(noun) a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
seed
(noun) a small hard fruit
seed
(verb) remove the seeds from; “seed grapes”
seed
(verb) inoculate with microorganisms
seed
(verb) sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; “seed clouds”
seed
(verb) distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
sow, seed
(verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; “She sowed sunflower seeds”
seed
(verb) go to seed; shed seeds; “The dandelions went to seed”
seed
(verb) bear seeds
seed
(verb) help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Seed (plural Seeds)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Seed is the 26067th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 940 individuals. Seed is most common among White (87.45%) individuals.
Anagrams
• EDES, dees, dese, sede
Etymology 1
Noun
seed (countable and uncountable, plural seeds)
(countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
(countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
(uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
(countable) A fragment of coral.
(uncountable) Semen.
(countable, figurative) A precursor.
Synonym: germ
(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
(now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
Race; generation; birth.
A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
Usage notes
The common use of seed differs from the botanical use. The “seeds” of sunflowers are botanically fruits.
Hyponyms
• crack seed
Verb
seed (third-person singular simple present seeds, present participle seeding, simple past and past participle seeded)
(transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
(transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
(transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
(sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
(internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
(intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
(intransitive) To produce seed.
(intransitive) To grow to maturity.
(slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
Etymology 2
Verb
seed
(dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see
Anagrams
• EDES, dees, dese, sede
Source: Wiktionary
Seed, n.; pl. Seed or Seeds. Etym: [OE. seed, sed, AS. s, fr. sawan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat, Icel. sa, s, Goth. manas 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. 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.
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.
2. (Physiol.)
Definition: The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
3. That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
4. The principle of production. Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed. Waller.
5. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
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.
6. Race; generation; birth. Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller. 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.
– Seed down (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as cotton seed.
– Seed drill. See 6th Drill, 2 (a).
– Seed eater (Zoöl.), any finch of the genera Sporophila, and Crithagra. They feed mainly on seeds.
– Seed gall (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), any one of numerous small weevels, especially those of the genus Apion, which live in the seeds of various plants.
– Seed wool, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds. [Southern U.S.]
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.
2. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes. B. Jonson. To seed down, to sow with grass seed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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