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单词 seedly
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seedlyadj.

Forms: see seed n. and -ly suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seed n., -ly suffix1.
Etymology: < seed n. + -ly suffix1.Old English sǣdlic is also attested in sense ‘(of a seed) that has been sown’; compare Old High German sātlīh in similar sense. Apparently re-formed in the 16th cent.
Obsolete. rare.
Of the nature of semen or seed (in various senses); existing in the state of seed.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [adjective] > of or belonging to Gadidae > existing as seed (of cod)
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OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) xxviii. 207 Quicquid seminarium uoluptatum est uenenum putato : swa hwæt swa sædlic unlusta ys attor getele þu.
1525 Anothomia in tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Handy Warke Surg. iii. sig. Bii Vaynes..conuay ye spermatyke or seedly mater or substance downe to the ballockis.
1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 271 When a Cod hath shot his Masculine Seed, there doth still remain in his Soft Rows, a great deal of Seeding Matter, where out more Seedly Animals are produced, then were shot out of it the Year before.
1829 J. Major Treat. Insects 196 The Onion, while in its seedly state is liable to be injured by the Slugs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018).
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