seed

Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

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Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.

The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.

An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.

The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

A fragment of coral.

To plant or sow an area with seeds.

I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.

To shed seeds (refers to plants)

These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.

To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

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To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

A venture capitalist seeds young companies.

The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.

To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.

A surname.