cloudˈ-seeding noun

The induction of rainfall by scattering particles, eg dry ice, silver iodide, on clouds from aircraft

cloudˈ-topped adjective

Covered with or touching the clouds

in the clouds

Out of touch with reality

on cloud nine (informal)

Extremely pleased or happy

under a cloud

In trouble, disgrace or disfavour

with one's head in the clouds

In a dreamy impractical way or state

seed¹ /sēd/

noun

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

intransitive verb

1. To produce seed
2. To run to seed

transitive verb

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

seed capital noun (finance)

Capital provided to allow a new company to finance the costs of producing the business plan necessary to raise further capital for development

seed coat noun

The hard protective covering of the seeds of flowering plants, the testa

seed coral noun

Coral in small irregular pieces

seed corn noun

1. Grain for sowing
2. Assets likely to bring future profit

seed drill noun

A machine for sowing seeds in rows

seed fern noun

Another name for pteridosperm

seedˈ-field noun

A field in which seed is sown

seedˈ-fish noun

A fish about to spawn

seedˈ-lac noun

Granular residues of lac after trituration

seed leaf noun

A cotyledon, a leaf contained in a seed

seedˈlip noun

(OE sǣdlēap from lēap, basket) a sower's basket

seedˈ-lobe noun

A cotyledon

seed money noun

Money with which a project or enterprise is set up, seed capital

seedˈ-oil noun

Oil expressed from seeds

seed oyster noun

A very young oyster

seed pearl noun

A very small pearl

seedˈ-plant noun

1. A spermatophyte or flowering plant
2. A plant grown from or for seed

seed plot noun

A piece of nursery ground, a hotbed

seed potato noun

A potato tuber for planting

seedsˈman noun

1. A dealer in seeds
2. A sower

seedˈ-stalk noun

The funicle

seed time noun

The season for sowing seeds

seed vessel noun

1. A dry fruit
2. The ovary of a flower

seedˈy-toe noun

A disease of a horse's foot

go or run to seed

1. To grow rapidly and untidily in preparation for seeding, instead of producing the vegetative growth desired by the grower
2. To disappoint expectation of development
3. To become exhausted
4. To go to waste
5. (usu go) to become unkempt, shabby

sow the seed(s) of

To initiate or engender