Seed Meaning and Definition

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