seed
/siːd/ noun A2- Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- Any small seed-like fruit. · If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
- 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.
- Semen. · A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
- A precursor. · the seed of an idea· Which idea was the seed (idea)?
- The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position) · The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
Plural seeds
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The second was the man’s conventional abode, or rather sleeping-place; it contained a few poor articles of household furniture—a bed, a table, two chairs, a stone pitcher—and some dry herbs, hung up to the ceiling, which the count recognized as sweet peas, and of which the good man was preserving the seeds; he had labelled them with as much care as if he had been master botanist in the Jardin des Plantes.
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them.
“He doesn’t generally go to town this time of year and he _never_ visits; if he’d run out of turnip seed he wouldn’t dress up and take the buggy to go for more; he wasn’t driving fast enough to be going for a doctor.
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