[
UK
/sˈiːd/
]
[ US /ˈsid/ ]
[ US /ˈsid/ ]
VERB
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remove the seeds from
seed grapes - distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
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sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
seed clouds - inoculate with microorganisms
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place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
She sowed sunflower seeds - help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- bear seeds
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go to seed; shed seeds
The dandelions went to seed
NOUN
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- a small hard fruit
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
How To Use seed In A Sentence
- She also lent me a couple of Ben Elton books which were good, but not as good for relaxing as they have a whole dark seedy side.
- Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
- She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
- I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
- They were a bit more seedy and sleazy, which was what I liked.
- The seeds were then cut in half longitudinally and deposited on a sterile Whatman No.1 filter paper impregnated with 1% tetrazolium chloride.
- Unlike the runny texture of most honeys, the gel-like consistency of heather honey means that, to form a set honey, it needs the addition of a more common honey, such as rapeseed, which granulates more quickly.
- Rosella seedlings are available through local nurseries from September onwards in the subtropics or during the dry season in tropical regions.
- American bittersweet is valued for its glossy green summer foliage followed by orange and red fruits and seeds, and several landscape cultivars are commercially marketed.
- * Polyuria :- The powder of the seeds is valuable in polyuria or production of excess urine. Archive 2009-06-01
