Seed

Definition: Seed

Seed

Noun

1. A small hard fruit.

2. A mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa.

3. One of the outstanding players in a tournament.

4. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.

5. The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract.

Verb

1. Go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed".

2. Help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money.

3. Bear seeds.

4. Place (seeds) in the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds".

5. Distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds; as of a tennis or golf player.

6. Sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds".

7. Inoculate with microorganisms.

8. Remove the seeds form, as of grapes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "seed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SEED

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Seed

Age

Adjective: aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; (imbecile); like the last of pea time.

Agriculture

Field, meadow, garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot, grassplat, lawn; park. (pleasure ground); parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery; farm. (abode).

Cause

Rudiment. egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm.

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Littleness

Animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.

Posterity

Noun: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.

Preparation

Verb: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation. set in order, put in order; (arrange); forecast; (plan) prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil; predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first stone; (begin).

Productiveness

Milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth; arrish, eddish, rowen; protoplasm; fertilization.

Pulverulence

Powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle. (smallness); limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Seed

Your seed like yourselves will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

Homer, you're a bad man and your seed should be wiped from the earthno offense, children (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Darling fascist bully-boy Give me some more money You bastard May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman Neil (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

Bad seed. Mean (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm)

Now, do you know what the seed is (Godspell; writing credit: David Greene; John-Michael Tebelak)

Tryin to feed and water my seed, plus (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

Every time that I plant a seed (I SHOT THE SHERIFF; performing artist: Eric Clapton)

Love is the only evil seed that could sever (I Cry; performing artist: Ja Rule)

We held our fire till we seed their faces well ("The Battle of New Orleans"; performing artist: Johnny Horton)

A seed to plant so my tree can grow (Wasting Time; performing artist: Kid Rock)

The Tamarind Seed (1974)

Wild Seed (1965)

The Persistent Seed (1964)

Strong Is the Seed (1949)

Dragon Seed (1944)

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References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Buckwheat, Millet, Canary Seed, and Grain Sorghum in India (reference)

• Sakata Seed Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Shellac, Seed Lac, Stick Lac, Resins, and Gum-Resins (reference)

• Snow Brand Seed Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Buckwheat, Millet, Canary Seed, and Grain Sorghum in Oceana (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Seeds Of Faith For The Seed In Utero (reference)

• Affirm Your Self Day by Day: Seed Thoughts for Loving Yourself (reference)

• Seed Production of Agricultural Crops (Intermediate Tropical Agriculture Series) (reference)

• Heterosis and Hybrid Seed Production in Agronomic Crops (reference)

• Animism (1921): The Seed of Religion (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Orange Seed (reference)

• Seed (reference)

• Seed & Crops Digest (reference)

• Seed Abstracts (reference)

• Seed Pathology And Microbiology (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blue Seed - Perfect Collection (reference)

• Magic School Bus - Goes to Seed (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Paredes: The Seventh Seed, etc. (reference)

• Blue Seed [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Monster Seed (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Nutritionist FX5 Daily Dose Flax Seed Mill (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Lab Technician inoculating leptosprial cultures with seed culture. Credit: CDC.

Marsh hibiscus seed pods. Also known as Eastern Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos.). Credit: America's Coastlines.

Lotus plants differ from water lilies in the shape of the leaves and the seed pods. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A close-up view of the seed heads on a newly planted marsh hay cordgrass, Spartina patens, plant. S patens was planted at the Lake Barre restoration site to stabilize high marsh areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Northside middle school volunteers seed the reef. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Furrow flood irrigation on a field of broccoli raised for seed. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

District Conservationist Bobbi McDermott inspecting a field of broccoli raised for seed. in Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Preparing equipment to load a crop duster with grass seed to be used for erosion control. Credit: USDA.

Loading a crop duster with grass seed to be used for erosion control in the city of Los Alamos, NM after the Cerro Grande Fire. Credit: USDA.

ARS technician Chester Sarreal separates alfalfa seeds by color and shape to determine whether certain seed characteristics are correlated with higher bacterial contamination levels. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

These men work carefully and endlessly to perfect the seed, the roots

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Throughout the tropics, seed dispersal and pollination activities by bats are vital to rain forest survival. (references)

Some investigators suspect an environmental cause, perhaps the use of flour from the highly toxic seed of the cycad plant. (references)

Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. (references)

Business

Other imports were seed cleaning machinery and plows. (references)

Israel is another strong player and major competitor in the areas of irrigation, greenhouse facilities and seed cultivation. (references)

The U. S. was a major supplier in the category of seed cleaning equipment in 1997 when it commanded a significant market share of 30 percent. (references)

Children

Ethiopia

The Tigray Development Association operates a center in Mekele that provides prostheses and seed money for business development, training, and counseling for persons with disabilities. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

Demand for cotton seed is high, but production is low. (references)

Kenya

For other crops there is a potential market for quality seed. (references)

Political Economy

PARAGUAY

The government provides small-scale farmers with subsidized inputs, such as seed and pest control products. (references)

Italy

Imports of non-GMO corn and soybean seed for planting were also hindered over concerns of adventitious biotech presence. (references)

PARAGUAY

In agriculture, the government has continued non-transparent state-run cotton programs for small farmers and kept hands off large-scale private sector oil seed production, the leading source of hard currency from exports. (references)

Trade

Kenya

Seed certification is mandatory before it can be sold locally. (references)

Greece

In order for a seed variety to be imported into Greece it should be listed in the European Variety Catalog. (references)

Georgia

The Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Affairs issues licenses for export of the following goods: historical and cultural valuables, certain medicines, and pine seed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Seed of God

Expressions using "seed": alfalfa seed ♦ Amber seed ♦ artificial seed ♦ bird seed ♦ Black Currant Seed Oil ♦ canary seed ♦ caraway seed ♦ caraway seed bread ♦ castor oil seed ♦ celery seed ♦ certified seed of the second generation ♦ clonal seed orchard ♦ coated seed ♦ Cola seed ♦ coriander seed ♦ Cotton seed ♦ cotton seed cakes ♦ cotton seed oil ♦ cumin seed ♦ dill seed ♦ Drop seed ♦ dusty seed ♦ edible seed ♦ farm saved seed ♦ fennel seed ♦ fenugreek seed ♦ fern seed ♦ fine seed ♦ flower seed ♦ go to seed ♦ grape seed ♦ Grape Seed Extract ♦ Javanee seed ♦ Javanese seed ♦ jumping seed ♦ machine for separating grape seed from marc ♦ musk seed ♦ mustard seed ♦ naked seed ♦ neem seed ♦ nicker seed ♦ outer seed coat ♦ pelleted seed ♦ pilled seed ♦ pine seed ♦ poppy seed ♦ precision seed ♦ pumpkin seed ♦ rape seed ♦ run to seed ♦ safflower seed ♦ saltcake seed ♦ seed bag ♦ seed bearer ♦ seed bed ♦ seed beetle ♦ seed box ♦ seed bud ♦ seed cake ♦ seed capsule ♦ seed case ♦ seed catalog ♦ seed catalogue ♦ seed chop ♦ seed coat ♦ seed core ♦ seed corn ♦ seed crystal ♦ seed cultivation ♦ seed down ♦ seed drill ♦ seed eater ♦ seed egg ♦ seed fern ♦ seed gall ♦ seed grain ♦ seed hair ♦ seed lac ♦ seed leaf ♦ seed lobe ♦ seed money ♦ seed of anise ♦ seed of dissension ♦ seed of local varieties ♦ seed oil ♦ seed oyster ♦ seed pearl ♦ seed pearls ♦ seed plant ♦ seed plat ♦ seed plot ♦ seed potato ♦ seed potatoe ♦ Seed Projects Unit ♦ seed shrimp ♦ seed sown in square ♦ seed sown in square groups ♦ seed stalk ♦ seed stock ♦ seed storage protein ♦ seed tick. Additional references.

Beginning with "seed": seed-bag, seed-bearers, seed-bearing, seed-bed, seed-beds, seed-borne, seed-boxes, seed-can, seed-capsule, seed-case, seed-com, seed-coral, seed-core, seed-corn, seed-crushing, seed-crystal, seed-cultivation station, seed-dispersal, seed-drill, seed-eaters, seed-eating, seed-fern, seed-ferns, seed-fish, seed-head, seed-heads, Seed-lac, seed-leaf, seed-lobe, Seed-merchant, seed-mulch, seed-packets, seed-pearl, seed-pearls, seed-plants, seed-plot, seed-plumes, seed-pod, seed-pods, seed-predators, Seed-pressure, seed-producing, seed-seeking, seed-sowing, seed-spiced cheese, seed-testing, seed-time, seed-tree, seed-wool, seed-years.

Ending with "seed": de-seed, gene-seed.

Containing "seed": ambrette-seed oil, cotton-seed tree, hemp-seed-colored, hemp-seed-coloured, poppy-seed cake, sunflower-seed oil.

Afrikaans

saad. (various references)

Albanian

farë (egg, embryo, germ, pip, semen, sort, spawn, species, sperm). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وزع (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, circulation, deal, deal out, deliver, diffuse, disburse, dispense, distribute, divide, dole out, hand out, issue, ladle, parcel, part, portion, serve out), ‏بزرة, ‏بزري, ‏شيخ (age, greybeard, old), ‏أصل (ancestry, beginning, birth, derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, genesis, germ, ingrain, origin, parent, parentage, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, provenience, race, rise, root, source, stock, strain, taproot), ‏ذرية (breed, generation, increase, lineage, offspring, parentage, progeny, race), ‏بذرة (germ, grain, kernel, pip, seedling, sowing, sperm, spore), ‏حب (attach, cereal, like, liking, lose one's heart, love, passion, pip), ‏فقد النضارة, ‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏نثر البزور, ‏نزع الحب (scoop), ‏نسل (breed, children, generation, lineage, offspring, parentage, posterity, procreate, progeny, ravel, spawn), ‏مذي, ‏محتو بزورا, ‏زرع (crop, cultivate, grow, implant, lay, plant, plantation, planting, put in, rear, sow, sowing, vegetate). (various references)

Aymara

jatha. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сея (inseminate, riddle, screen, sow), семена, семе (semen), сперма (semen, seminal fluid, sperm), очиствам семената на, отделям семената на, зърно (bean, corn, grain, kernel, mammilla, nipple), засявам (grow, stock), зародиш (embryo, fetus, foetus, germ, nucleus), прецъфтявам (overblow, run to seed), потомство (brood, generation, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, spawn), давам семе (run to seed). (various references)

Chinese 

种子 (Seeds), 種子 , 種 (kind, race, to grow, to plant, type), 播種 (sow, sow seeds), 子 (1st earthly branch, child, egg, midnight, small thing, son). (various references)

Czech

sperma (semen, sperm), semeno (semen), zrno (bean, corn, grain, granule, kernel), zrní (grain), zakladat, potomstvo (brood, descendants, offspring, posterity, progeny), osít (crop), odpeckovat (stone), nasadit (fix, move in, put on, use), jádro (bedrock, core, essence, guts, inside, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nubble, nucleus, pip, pith, quintessence, stone, substance). (various references)

Danish

startværdi (seed value), spredeudstyr (etc. ), spreading equipment ( dust), specialelement med forøget berigning (spike), saasaed (seeds), sågods, lus (louse), disseminering (dissemination), finlus (fine seed), frø (frog), frøkorn (grain, grain of seed), froe (seeds), basistal, korn (cereals, grain, grain of seed, granules), udsaed (seeds), udsæd (seeding, sowing), initialværdi (seed value). (various references)

Dutch

zaad (germ, offspring, sperm). (various references)

Esperanto

semo. (various references)

Farsi 

کاشتن (Grow, Husband, Implant, Inseminate, Plant), تخم اوری , تخم ریختن , تخم (Egg, Fry, Kernel, Oosperm, Semen, Testicle, Zygote(Tic)), ذریه , اولاد (Breed, Issue, Offspring, Posterity, Progeny, Slip), دانه (Bait, Bean, Birdseed, Grain, Granule, Kernel, Pill, Rash, Semen), بذر (Spawn, Sperm). (various references)

Finnish

siemen (germ, grain, pip), kylvösiemen (seeds). (various references)

French

semence (seeds, semen), graine (grain of seed, seed egg, seed value, silk seed). (various references)

Frisian

sied. (various references)

German

Saat (seedings, seeds, sowing, young crop), Samenkorn (grain, seed corn), Same, Korn (bead, corn, corn schnapps, front sight, grain, granule, kernel, pip, speck, stone), Kern (center, centre, core, crux, essence, gist, gut, heart, heartwood, kernel, marrow, nub, nucleus, pip, pit, pith, quintessence, stone), Aussaat (sewing, sowing, sowings). (various references)

Greek 

σπόρος (grain, grain of seed, seeding, spawn), σπέρνω (sow). (various references)

Hawaiian

farë. (various references)

Hebrew 

מקור (fount, fountain, germ, nib, origin, parent, resource, resources, root, source, well, wellspring), לזרוע (crop, plant, scatter, sow), להציב שחקן, זרעון (achene, sperm, spermatozoon), זרע (corn, germ, offspring, semen, sperm), גרעין (grain, granule, kernel, nutlet, pip, stone), צאצאים (offspring, progeny). (various references)

Hungarian

mag (berry, cicatrice, core, corn, heart, kernel, nuclear, nuclei, nucleus, pip, seminal, stone). (various references)

Indonesian

biji (classifier, grade, point, stone, testicles), bibit (cause, germ, prospective, seedling), benih (cause, embryo, germ, origin, semen). (various references)

Irish

síol. (various references)

Italian

seme (kernel, pip, pit, semen), testa di serie, semi (etc. ), spreading equipment ( dust), germe (bug, germ). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

種 (kind, material, pip, quality, tone, variety), 実 (content, fruit, good result, nut). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たねもの (shaved ice with fruit syrup, type of noodle dish), たね (cause, copy, inside story, issue, kind, material, matter, offspring, paternal blood, pip, quality, secret, source, subject, theme, tone, trick, variety), しゅし (finger, gist, idea, meaning, motive, object, opinion, pit), シード , ザーメン , み (body, content, fruit, good result, main part, not yet, nut, oneself, sixth sign of Chinese zodiac, sword, three). (various references)

Korean 

씨 (MR, Seeds). (various references)

Manx

sluight (children's children, descendant, family, lineage, offspring, parentage, passage, posterity, progeniture, race, remnant), sheel (issue, lineage, oats, offspring, pip, sperm, spunk), rass correy, rass, cheet my yeish (ear), caaee. (various references)

Mohawk

kanen. (various references)

Occitan

grana (breed), gran (grain). (various references)

Papago

kai. (various references)

Pig Latin

eedsay.(various references)

Portuguese

semente (corn, grain, granule, kernel, pip), grão (bean, berry, corn, grain, granule, grit, pip, speck). (various references)

Romanian

spermã (cum, jizz, sperm), semãna (approach, be alike, disseminate, look lite, resemble, sow, spread, take after), selecţiona (choose, select, sort, sort out), sãmânţã (semen, species, sperm, trace), rãsad (seedling), progeniturã (issue, offspring, progeny, spawn), plod (baby, dandiprat, embryo, germ), grãunte (corn, grain, grains, granule, kernel), bob (bean, bob sleigh, bobsled, bobsleigh, corn, grain, kernel, Pearl, speck), însãmânţa (inoculate, sow). (various references)

Romansch

sem. (various references)

Romany

sèmi. (various references)

Russian 

сеять (inseminate, sow, sowed, sown, sows), семя (semen, seminal fluid), очищать от зернышек, зерно (corn, grain, granule, kernel), засевать семя семенной. (various references)

Scottish

sìol (clan, descendants, spawn or fry of fish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

semenka, seme (pip, pippin, semen), zrno (bullet, grain, kernel), posejati (sow). (various references)

Shona

mbeu. (various references)

Sicilian

simenza. (various references)

Spanish

simiente (tack), semilla (kernel), semen (semen). (various references)

Sranan

siri. (various references)

Swahili

mbegu. (various references)

Swazi

ín-hlanyélo. (various references)

Swedish

frö (embryo, germ, grain), utsäde (seeds), säd (corn, grain, semen). (various references)

Tagalog

butó (bone), bunhî. (various references)

Thai

เอาเมล็ดออก, เมล็ด, น้ำเชื้อ, ต้นกำเนิด (birth), หว่านเมล็ด. (various references)

Turkish

sperma (come, semen, seminal fluid, sperm, spermatic, spermatic fluid, spermo-), sınıflamak (categorize, classify, grade, staple), tohum vermek, tohum ekmek (disseminate, drill, sow), tohum (germ, germinal, legume, ovum, seminal, spermo-), tane (bead, bean, grain, kernel, legume, piece), meni (come, semen, seminal fluid, sperm, spermatic fluid), istiridye yavruları, döl (fruit, offspring, progeniture, progeny, race, semen, spawn), çocuk (baby, bairn, brat, child, chit, infant, infantile, junior, juvenile, kid, mite, moppet, nipper, paed-, son, youngster), çekirdek (core, core memory, cystoblast, hard core, hard pan, kernel, nucleus, pit, stone), çekirdeğini çıkarmak (pit, stone). (various references)

Turkmen 

tohum (race), dдne (grain, pit). (various references)

Ukrainian

сіяти (corn, crop, inseminate, plant, sow), сім'я (household, kindred, sperm), насіння, давати насіння. (various references)

Vietnamese 

hậu thế mầm mống, hạt (county, fleck). (various references)

Welsh

hedyn (germ), hadu, had. (various references)

Yucatec

neek', i'nah. (various references)

numun, �e-numun. (various references)

gone, kokkos, sperma, spora. (various references)

acinum, acinus, acrabattene, grana, grano, granum, semen, semen-inis, semina, semine, semini, seminibus, seminis, seminum, sperma. (various references)

cithra, taoxma, vaêjahi, xshudrå. (various references)

sperma. (various references)

pit. (various references)

baie. (various references)