seed¹ /sēd/

1. A multicellular structure by which flowering plants reproduce, consisting of embryo, stored food, and seed coat, derived from the fertilized ovule (botany)
2. A small hard fruit or part in a fruit, a pip
3. A seedlike object or aggregate
4. Semen (literary or poetic)
5. Spawn
6. The condition of having or proceeding to form seed
7. Sown land
8. Grass and clover grown from seed
9. A first principle
10. Origin, beginning or germ
11. A crystal introduced to start crystallization
12. Offspring, descendants, race
13. A small bubble in glass
14. A tournament player who has been seeded

1. To produce seed
2. To run to seed

1. To sow
2. To sprinkle, powder, dust
3. To remove seeds from
4. (in sports tournaments) to arrange (the draw) so that the best players do not meet in the early rounds
5. To deal with (the best players) in this way
6. To introduce particles of material (into something, eg a chemical solution) to induce crystallization or precipitation
7. Specif, to induce rainfall, disperse a storm or freezing fog, etc, by scattering cloud with particles of an appropriate substance (also cloud-seeding)

seedˈed adjective

1. With the seeds removed
2. Having seeds
3. Bearing seed
4. Full-grown
5. Sown
6. Showing seeds or carpels (heraldry)
7. (of a tournament player) who has been seeded

seedˈer noun

1. A plant that produces seeds
2. A seed drill
3. An apparatus for removing seeds from fruit
4. A seed-fish

seedˈily adverb

seedˈiness noun

seedˈing noun and adjective

seedˈless adjective

seedˈlike adjective

seedˈling noun

1. A plant reared from the seed
2. A young plant ready for planting out from a seedbed
3. A seed oyster

seedˈness noun (obsolete)

Sowing

seedˈy adjective

1. Abounding with seed
2. Having the flavour of seeds
3. Not cleared of seeds
4. Run to seed
5. Worn-out
6. Out of sorts
7. Shabby

seed bank noun (botany)

1. The total viable seed content of the soil
2. A collection of seeds in long-term storage, which can be germinated as required for breeding and study

seedˈbed noun

1. A piece of ground for receiving seed
2. An environment, etc, that fosters a particular thing (esp something considered undesirable)

seedˈbox or seedˈcase noun

A part of a plant in which the seeds are encased

seedˈcake noun

A cake flavoured with caraway seeds

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