Seedless

Definition: Seedless

Seedless

Adjective

1. Lacking seeds; "seedless grapefruit".

Date "seedless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Antonym: seedy (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Seedless

English words defined with "seedless": breadfruit ♦ cryptogam, currant ♦ fern ♦ Jaffa orange ♦ navel orange ♦ satsuma, seedless raisin, sultana ♦ Thallophyta, Thompson Seedless ♦ Zante currant. (references)

Specialty definitions using "seedless": buck currants. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Seedless

Domain	Title
Books	The Wondrous World of Seedless Plants (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Seedless

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	Karen Fuller (right), NRCS biologist and California farmer (left) examine seedless grapes being dried to produce raisins. [Slide 97CS2973].Credit: Bob Nichols.		Commercial vineyards have planted more than one million of the ARS-developed Crimson Seedless grapevines. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Bob Nichols..
	Autumn Royal, a new seedless grape. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Bob Nichols..		Flame Seedless grapes. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Patrick Tregenza..
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Seedless

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Israel	Consumers demonstrate preference for U.S. Jumbo Golden Seedless raisins. (references)
	Guatemala	The most popular varieties imported into the country are Emperor, Red Globe and Thompson seedless grapes. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Seedless

"Seedless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seedless" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	26	68,323

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Seedless

Expressions using "seedless": seedless raisin ♦ Thompson Seedless. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Seedless

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
seedless	27	seedless tomato	3
seedless watermelon	26	seedless orange	3
raisin seedless	20	seedless plant	3
seedless clothing	16	flame seedless	3
seedless grape	14	cherry seedless	3
plant seedless vascular	8	crimson seedless	2
thompson seedless grape	7	grape grape seedless table variety white	2
seedless watermelons	7	blackberry cobbler seedless	2
fruit seedless	6	raisins seedless	2
seed seedless watermelon	6	red seedless grape	2
raisin seedless small	6	blackberry jam recipe seedless	2
ash marshall seedless	4	ash seedless tree	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Seedless

Language		Translations for "seedless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pafarë. (various references)

Arabic		‏بدون بذور. (various references)

Bulgarian		без семена. (various references)

Chinese		� � �. (various references)

Czech		bez semen. (various references)

Finnish		siemenetön. (various references)

French		sans pépins. (various references)

German		kernlos (seedlessly). (various references)

Greek		άσποροσ. (various references)

Hebrew		חסר �'רעי� ים. (various references)

Hungarian		magtalan. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		種無し果実 (seedless fruit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たねなしかじつ (seedless fruit). (various references)

Korean		�"�없�". (various references)

Pig Latin		eedlesssay

Portuguese		sem sementes, que não dá semente. (various references)

Russian		бессемянный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bez semena. (various references)

Spanish		sin semillas, sin pepitas. (various references)

Swedish		kärnfri. (various references)

Turkish		tohumsuz, çekirdeksiz (stoneless). (various references)

Ukranian		безкісточковий, безнасінний. (various references)

Vietnamese		không có hạt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Seedless

Misspellings
	"Seedless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seedle, seidlitz, Seleses, Seydlitz, siecles. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Seedless"

Words rhyming with "seedless" (pronounced 'Seed"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Seedless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-l-s-s-s"
	-1 letter: lessees.
	-2 letters: lessee, seeled.
	-3 letters: deles, esses, seeds, seels, sleds.
	-4 letters: dees, dele, dels, eels, elds, else, eses, lees, less, seed, seel, sees, sels, sled.
	-5 letters: dee, del, eds, eel, eld, els, ess, led, lee, see, sel.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-l-s-s-s"
	+1 letter: eldresses.
	+2 letters: blessedest, idlenesses, lewdnesses.
	+3 letters: blessedness, defenseless, edelweisses, endlessness, slenderness.
	+4 letters: adulteresses, deadlinesses, delusiveness, desolateness, dilutenesses, doublenesses, ediblenesses, elatednesses, goldennesses, headlessness, heedlessness, leadennesses, leopardesses, needlessness, secludedness, wildernesses.
	+5 letters: belatednesses, blessednesses, deathlessness, defenselessly, delicatessens, desirableness, dolefulnesses, dreamlessness, durablenesses, elderlinesses, endlessnesses, godlessnesses, godlikenesses, heedfulnesses, learnednesses, limitednesses, needfulnesses, orderlinesses, relatednesses, relaxednesses, slendernesses, stiltednesses, unsettledness.
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