Word: Seed
How to pronounce: siːd
Noun
Definitions:
1. A flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant.
Example sentences: "Cut open the peppers and remove the seeds"
2. A man's semen.
Example sentences: "In a similar way, human males feel a biological need to release their seed at frequent intervals."
3. Any of a number of stronger competitors in a sports tournament who have been assigned a specified position in an ordered list with the aim of ensuring that they do not play each other in the early rounds.
Example sentences: "He knocked the top seed out of the championships"
4. A small crystal introduced into a liquid to act as a nucleus for crystallization.
Example sentences: "Spherulites are ideally spherical mineral growths formed by initial crystallization of a seed crystal, or crystallite, within a melt or a solution that grows outward in all directions."
5. A small container for radioactive material placed in body tissue during radiotherapy.
Verb
Definitions:
1. Sow (land) with seeds.
Example sentences: "The shoreline is seeded with a special grass"
2. (of a plant) produce or drop seeds.
Example sentences: "Mulches encourage many plants to seed freely"
3. Remove the seeds from (vegetables or fruit)
Example sentences: "Stem and seed the chilies"
4. Give (a competitor) the status of seed in a tournament.
Example sentences: "Jeff Tarango, seeded five, was defeated by fellow American Todd Witsken"
Synonyms:
grain
sunflower seed
germ
corn
semen
offspring
sowing
inoculum
crop
drill
progeny
posterity
fruit
seed breeding
seed farming
sow
root
source
plant
spawn
Antonyms:
harvest
Derivations:
seeded
seeding
seedless
seedling
seeder
seedsman
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Seed in Other Languages...
Spanish: Semilla
German: Samen
French: Graine
Italian: Seme
Turkish: Tohum
