seed cornn.

Brit.

/ˈsiːd kɔːn/, U.S.

/ˈsid ˌkɔrn/

Forms: see seed n. and corn n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seed n., corn n.¹

Etymology: < seed n. + corn n.¹Compare Dutch zaadkoren (mid 16th cent.), Middle Low German sātkōrn, German Saatkorn (15th cent.), Old Icelandic sáðkorn.

1. Grain (now esp. maize) grown and preserved for sowing in order to produce a new crop; (occasionally) a kernel of such grain. Also in plural: varieties or kinds of seed corn.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > seed for sowing

bere-seedeOE

seed corn?a1450

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > seed crop

seed corn?a1450

?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 126 (MED) Zenocates seide þat a woman flourz shulde faile here as many dayes as she etyþ coriandre sedde cornes.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Adoreum, sede corne.

1592 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 79 Roberte Aspeden for to bestowe upone side corne and other charges..x¹.

a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. xi. 70 Stay not for showres; The soile, if overflowne, Will drown thy seed-corn, and return thee none.

1682 M. Rowlandson Soveraignty & Goodness of God (ed. 2) xx. 58 Two Coats and twenty shillings in Mony, and half a bushel of seed Corn, and some Tobacco.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 139 Even after I had got the first Handful of Seed-Corn.

1794 J. Roger Gen. View Agric. Angus or Forfar 10 To save wheat or other grain from degeneracy, the seed corn is brought from an opposite soil.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 283 All seed-corn should be sifted.

1865 Q. Jrnl. Sci. 2 644 The density of individual seed corns..may perhaps to some small extent be readable in the crop at harvest time.

1881 Rural New-Yorker 1 Jan. 4/4 The only two thoroughbred seed-corns I know of, are the Blount's Prolific and the Wanabakum.

1903 Times 20 Oct. 5/5 The quality of the seedcorn presented to the Boers can be gauged from the fact that a cargo of parched Indian corn was landed at Durban and distributed.

1938 Dept. Agric. & Immigration Virginia Bull. No. 356 6 We believe that our farmers should be interested in hybrid seed corns, and should try them out, perhaps not extensively but in a reasonable way.

1987 J. H. Poehlman Breeding Field Crops xviii. 488 (caption) Seed corn is germinated in a moist paper towel.

2010 Windsor (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 28 Oct. a5 There are about 20,000 acres of seed corn grown annually in Ontario, down from about 45,000 acres grown 20 years ago.

2. figurative. The germ of some future growth or development (usually with of). Later spec.: assets set aside for the generation of profit or some other benefit in the future.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ

seedeOE

mustard seed?1523

seed corn1586

seedness1597

sperm1639

seminal1646

germ1823

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses > for future profit

seed corn1586

outset1719

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 532 (margin) Youth is the seede-corne of the Common-wealth.

1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast 202 He suffers pain in vain, and shall receive nothing, who..casteth into the furrow no seed-corn of the works of mercy.

1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 8 598 Some of these seed-corns of superstition, it is expected, must strike root.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 222 We know that l'homme de lettres is a little wary, and not fond of giving away his seed-corn.

1944 Kingsport (Tennessee) News 19 Jan. 4/2 Then, surely, our finest boys are the seed corn of democracy?

1962 Economist 19 May 688/1 The loans and grants from his agency are ‘seed corn’; they stimulate local initiative and self-help.

2014 M. Perry Most Dangerous Man in Amer. i. 9 The military's officer corps was the seed corn of American national security.

Phrases

to eat one's seed corn (and variants): to use up assets without regard for the greater benefit they are likely to generate if preserved.

ΚΠ

1873 Rockingham Reg. (Harrisonburg, Va.) 17 Jan. The figures we publish show that the total income of the State is only $3,290, 980. 78—while our expenditure is $3, 361, 538. 47. In other words, we are eating our seed corn.

1912 I. Fisher & E. F. Robbins Mem. Conservation Human Life (62nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. No. 493) 8 Through our present prodigality of human life and strength we are cutting up our oxen and eating our seed corn; we are scattering the substance that belongs to future generations.

1989 New Yorker 20 Mar. 97/1 A Cabinet officer said to me worriedly, ‘The President is using up too much of his seed corn’.

2002 Time 18 Mar. 62/2 Cash outs [from refinancing a home mortgage] ‘are a little like eating your seed corn. It's not a long-term solution.’

Compounds

C1. attributive. Designating or relating to resources invested or reinvested for future benefit, as seed corn investment, seed corn money, etc. Cf. seed n. Compounds 1g.

ΚΠ

1977 Times 20 Dec. 10/8 The IBA should be prepared to use the secondary rental income from these established stations which are already well into profit, as seedcorn money to help establish and run independent stations in smaller townships.

1998 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 31 May 4/3 He asked if Quarles was still ready to back him. Quarles put up a first seedcorn investment of 50,000.

2007 Express It (Aer Annan) No. 30. 29/1 €280,000 for the best seedcorn businesses on the island.

C2.

seed corn maggot n. U.S. the yellowish-white larva of a fly, Delia platura (family Anthomyiidae), which infests the planted seed of many crop plants, esp. beans and sweetcorn, preventing sprouting or causing the seedlings to be weak and spindly; (also) the adult fly; cf. radish fly n. at radish n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1868 Amer. Entomologist 1 224/1 (heading) Seed-corn maggot.

1902 Bull. Div. Entomol. U.S. Dept. Agric. 33 84 The Seed-Corn Maggot..has received no less than seven Latin names.

1949 Jrnl. Econ. Entomol. 42 77/1 The seed corn maggot..injures bean, pea and corn seedlings before the plants emerge.

2003 R. Ozeki All over Creation i. 5 A host of pests that nobody could imagine why God had even bothered to create: Seedcorn maggots, leatherjackets, and millipedes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seed corn
释义	seed cornn. Brit. /ˈsiːd kɔːn/, U.S. /ˈsid ˌkɔrn/ Forms: see seed n. and corn n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seed n., corn n.¹ Etymology: < seed n. + corn n.¹Compare Dutch zaadkoren (mid 16th cent.), Middle Low German sātkōrn, German Saatkorn (15th cent.), Old Icelandic sáðkorn. 1. Grain (now esp. maize) grown and preserved for sowing in order to produce a new crop; (occasionally) a kernel of such grain. Also in plural: varieties or kinds of seed corn. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > seed for sowing bere-seedeOE seed corn?a1450 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > seed crop seed corn?a1450 ?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 126 (MED) Zenocates seide þat a woman flourz shulde faile here as many dayes as she etyþ coriandre sedde cornes. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Adoreum, sede corne. 1592 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 79 Roberte Aspeden for to bestowe upone side corne and other charges..x¹. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. xi. 70 Stay not for showres; The soile, if overflowne, Will drown thy seed-corn, and return thee none. 1682 M. Rowlandson Soveraignty & Goodness of God (ed. 2) xx. 58 Two Coats and twenty shillings in Mony, and half a bushel of seed Corn, and some Tobacco. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 139 Even after I had got the first Handful of Seed-Corn. 1794 J. Roger Gen. View Agric. Angus or Forfar 10 To save wheat or other grain from degeneracy, the seed corn is brought from an opposite soil. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 283 All seed-corn should be sifted. 1865 Q. Jrnl. Sci. 2 644 The density of individual seed corns..may perhaps to some small extent be readable in the crop at harvest time. 1881 Rural New-Yorker 1 Jan. 4/4 The only two thoroughbred seed-corns I know of, are the Blount's Prolific and the Wanabakum. 1903 Times 20 Oct. 5/5 The quality of the seedcorn presented to the Boers can be gauged from the fact that a cargo of parched Indian corn was landed at Durban and distributed. 1938 Dept. Agric. & Immigration Virginia Bull. No. 356 6 We believe that our farmers should be interested in hybrid seed corns, and should try them out, perhaps not extensively but in a reasonable way. 1987 J. H. Poehlman Breeding Field Crops xviii. 488 (caption) Seed corn is germinated in a moist paper towel. 2010 Windsor (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 28 Oct. a5 There are about 20,000 acres of seed corn grown annually in Ontario, down from about 45,000 acres grown 20 years ago. 2. figurative. The germ of some future growth or development (usually with of). Later spec.: assets set aside for the generation of profit or some other benefit in the future. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ seedeOE mustard seed?1523 seed corn1586 seedness1597 sperm1639 seminal1646 germ1823 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses > for future profit seed corn1586 outset1719 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 532 (margin) Youth is the seede-corne of the Common-wealth. 1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast 202 He suffers pain in vain, and shall receive nothing, who..casteth into the furrow no seed-corn of the works of mercy. 1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 8 598 Some of these seed-corns of superstition, it is expected, must strike root. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 222 We know that l'homme de lettres is a little wary, and not fond of giving away his seed-corn. 1944 Kingsport (Tennessee) News 19 Jan. 4/2 Then, surely, our finest boys are the seed corn of democracy? 1962 Economist 19 May 688/1 The loans and grants from his agency are ‘seed corn’; they stimulate local initiative and self-help. 2014 M. Perry Most Dangerous Man in Amer. i. 9 The military's officer corps was the seed corn of American national security. Phrases to eat one's seed corn (and variants): to use up assets without regard for the greater benefit they are likely to generate if preserved. ΚΠ 1873 Rockingham Reg. (Harrisonburg, Va.) 17 Jan. The figures we publish show that the total income of the State is only $3,290, 980. 78—while our expenditure is $3, 361, 538. 47. In other words, we are eating our seed corn. 1912 I. Fisher & E. F. Robbins Mem. Conservation Human Life (62nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. No. 493) 8 Through our present prodigality of human life and strength we are cutting up our oxen and eating our seed corn; we are scattering the substance that belongs to future generations. 1989 New Yorker 20 Mar. 97/1 A Cabinet officer said to me worriedly, ‘The President is using up too much of his seed corn’. 2002 Time 18 Mar. 62/2 Cash outs [from refinancing a home mortgage] ‘are a little like eating your seed corn. It's not a long-term solution.’ Compounds C1. attributive. Designating or relating to resources invested or reinvested for future benefit, as seed corn investment, seed corn money, etc. Cf. seed n. Compounds 1g. ΚΠ 1977 Times 20 Dec. 10/8 The IBA should be prepared to use the secondary rental income from these established stations which are already well into profit, as seedcorn money to help establish and run independent stations in smaller townships. 1998 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 31 May 4/3 He asked if Quarles was still ready to back him. Quarles put up a first seedcorn investment of 50,000. 2007 Express It (Aer Annan) No. 30. 29/1 €280,000 for the best seedcorn businesses on the island. C2. seed corn maggot n. U.S. the yellowish-white larva of a fly, Delia platura (family Anthomyiidae), which infests the planted seed of many crop plants, esp. beans and sweetcorn, preventing sprouting or causing the seedlings to be weak and spindly; (also) the adult fly; cf. radish fly n. at radish n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1868 Amer. Entomologist 1 224/1 (heading) Seed-corn maggot. 1902 Bull. Div. Entomol. U.S. Dept. Agric. 33 84 The Seed-Corn Maggot..has received no less than seven Latin names. 1949 Jrnl. Econ. Entomol. 42 77/1 The seed corn maggot..injures bean, pea and corn seedlings before the plants emerge. 2003 R. Ozeki All over Creation i. 5 A host of pests that nobody could imagine why God had even bothered to create: Seedcorn maggots, leatherjackets, and millipedes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1450
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