SEED
Definition:
- [noun] a small hard fruit
- [noun] a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
- [noun] one of the outstanding players in a tournament
Synonyms: ed player
- [noun] anything that provides inspiration for later work
Synonyms: source, germ
- [noun] the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
Synonyms: semen, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum
- [verb] go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed"
- [verb] help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- [verb] bear seeds
- [verb] place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds"
Synonyms: sow, sough
- [verb] distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- [verb] sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds"
- [verb] inoculate with microorganisms
- [verb] remove the seeds from; "seed grapes"
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Related Words:
- reseed
- broadcast
- inseminate, sow, sow in
- scatter
- edible seed
- coffee bean, coffee berry, coffee
- pip
- bonduc nut, nicker nut, nicker seed
- Job's tears
- oilseed
- safflower seed
- grain, caryopsis
- ash-key
- coquilla nut
- babassu nut
- cohune nut
- ivory nut, vegetable ivory, apple nut
- neem seed
- buckeye, horse chestnut, conker
- jumping bean, jumping seed, Mexican jumping bean
- bean
- nut
- taproot
- muse
- milt
