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Seed
SEED, n.
1. The substance, animal or vegetable, which nature prepares for the reproduction and conservation of the species. The seeds of plants are a deciduous part, containing the rudiments of a new vegetable. In some cases, the seeds costitute the fruit or valuable part of plants, as in the case of wheat and other esculent grain; sometimes the seeds are inclosed in fruit, as in apples and melons. When applied to animal matter, it has no plural.
2. That from which any thing springs; first principle; original; as the seeds of virtue or vice.
3. Principle of production.
Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed. Waller.
4. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. In this sense, the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form; but rarely used in the plural.
5. Race; generation; birth.
Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller.
SEED, v. i.
1. To grow to maturity, so as to produce seed. Maiz will not seed in a cool climate.
2. To shed the seed.
SEED, v. t. To sow; to sprinkle with seed, which germinates and takes root.
seed appears in definitions for these words:
Abelmosk Acknowledge Acorn Acotyledon Acrospire Act Adders-tongue Agnomination Agriculture Ajava Alpia Alpist Amomum Angiomonospermous Angiosperm Angiospermous Anise Annotta Anotta Apple-tree Arillus Ash Asperifoliate Bacca Bandian Bean Berry Bicapsular Bivalve Bivalvous Boll Bonduc Bor Broad-cast Bury Cabbage Cacao Calycle Canary-grass Capillary Capsule Caravel Cardamom Cast Castor-oil Caudal Caudate Cell Chess Chestnut Chichling Chit Cicatricle Citisin Clog Cod Cole-seed Columel Conceive Conceptacle Cone Coniferous Contrition Corcle Corcule Core Coriander Corn Corona Coronule Cotton-gin Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Cotyledon Cotyledonous Cranes-bill Crout Crown Culmiferous Cumin Decemlocular Denticulate Determine Dibble Dicoccous Dicotyledon Dicotyledonous Die Diffusion Dill Dispermous Disseminate Disseminated Dissemination Dissepiment Divers Dorsiferous Dorsiparous Down Ear Egret Epiphyllospermous Equivocal Everlasting Fallow Farinaceous Fecundity Feed Feeder Fig-tree Film Fimble-hemp Flaxseed Follicle Formative Fructescence Fructification Frugivorous Fruit Gate Germ Germinal Germinate Germination Gin Glume Grain Grains Gramineal Granivorous Grapestone Grass Grow Growth Gymnosperm Gymnospermous Harrow Haw Head Heart-pea Hedgehog Henbane Heptacapsular Hilum Hold Hopper Husk Hyperbole Implant Impregn Impregnating Increase Integument Kernel Key Krout Lac Laconism Legume Lentil Live Liverwort Lobe Loculament Loment Lomentaceous Lupine Menispermic Miliary Milk Mingle Minister Monocotyle Monocotyledonous Monospermous Moss Much Multisiliquous Mustard Naked Number Oast Octolocular Octospermous Offering Olitory Orange Out Overstock Panic Pappous Pappus Parrot Pea Pentacoccous Pentaspermous Pepper Pepper-corn Pericarp Perisperm Pistillaceous Placenta Placentation Plane-tree Plant Planted Planting Plow Plumous Plumule Pod Polycotyledon Polycotyledonous Polysperm Polyspermous Pomegranate Prepare Prosecute Prosemination Prosperous Pulse Radicate Radicle Rapeseed Receptacle Recount Retuse Ric Roebuck Rose Rostel Roundish Rudiment Sandal-wood Scatter Scorch Seed Seed-cake Seed-coat Seed-leaf Seed-lip Seed-lobe Seed-plat Seed-vessel Seedling Seedness Seedsman Seedy Semific Seminal Seminality Seminary Semination Semined Seminiferous Seminification Seroon Sesamum Sessile Sexlocular Shack Shadow Shagreen Silicle Silique Sinapism Sinepite Singularity Solitary Sow-thistle Sowed Sower Sowing Sown Sperm Spermatic Spermatize Spring Sprout Stallion Stead Steep Stipe Stock Stone-fruit Strew Surety Swim Tail Tamarinds Tergifetous Tetraspermous Thin Three-seeded Tillage Tilled Tiller Tilth Treacle-mustard Tribe Tricoccous Trilocular Trispermous Tunic Twifallowing Two-seeded Umbilical Underfurrow Undistinguished Unseeded Unsowed Utricle Variety Vasculiferous Vegetable Vegeto-animal Vitality Viviparous Vomic Wheat Whitewood Wing Winged Womb Worm-seed Yolk Zeine
Abelmosk Acknowledge Acorn Acotyledon Acrospire Act Adders-tongue Agnomination Agriculture Ajava Alpia Alpist Amomum Angiomonospermous Angiosperm Angiospermous Anise Annotta Anotta Apple-tree Arillus Ash Asperifoliate Bacca Bandian Bean Berry Bicapsular Bivalve Bivalvous Boll Bonduc Bor Broad-cast Bury Cabbage Cacao Calycle Canary-grass Capillary Capsule Caravel Cardamom Cast Castor-oil Caudal Caudate Cell Chess Chestnut Chichling Chit Cicatricle Citisin Clog Cod Cole-seed Columel Conceive Conceptacle Cone Coniferous Contrition Corcle Corcule Core Coriander Corn Corona Coronule Cotton-gin Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Cotyledon Cotyledonous Cranes-bill Crout Crown Culmiferous Cumin Decemlocular Denticulate Determine Dibble Dicoccous Dicotyledon Dicotyledonous Die Diffusion Dill Dispermous Disseminate Disseminated Dissemination Dissepiment Divers Dorsiferous Dorsiparous Down Ear Egret Epiphyllospermous Equivocal Everlasting Fallow Farinaceous Fecundity Feed Feeder Fig-tree Film Fimble-hemp Flaxseed Follicle Formative Fructescence Fructification Frugivorous Fruit Gate Germ Germinal Germinate Germination Gin Glume Grain Grains Gramineal Granivorous Grapestone Grass Grow Growth Gymnosperm Gymnospermous Harrow Haw Head Heart-pea Hedgehog Henbane Heptacapsular Hilum Hold Hopper Husk Hyperbole Implant Impregn Impregnating Increase Integument Kernel Key Krout Lac Laconism Legume Lentil Live Liverwort Lobe Loculament Loment Lomentaceous Lupine Menispermic Miliary Milk Mingle Minister Monocotyle Monocotyledonous Monospermous Moss Much Multisiliquous Mustard Naked Number Oast Octolocular Octospermous Offering Olitory Orange Out Overstock Panic Pappous Pappus Parrot Pea Pentacoccous Pentaspermous Pepper Pepper-corn Pericarp Perisperm Pistillaceous Placenta Placentation Plane-tree Plant Planted Planting Plow Plumous Plumule Pod Polycotyledon Polycotyledonous Polysperm Polyspermous Pomegranate Prepare Prosecute Prosemination Prosperous Pulse Radicate Radicle Rapeseed Receptacle Recount Retuse Ric Roebuck Rose Rostel Roundish Rudiment Sandal-wood Scatter Scorch Seed Seed-cake Seed-coat Seed-leaf Seed-lip Seed-lobe Seed-plat Seed-vessel Seedling Seedness Seedsman Seedy Semific Seminal Seminality Seminary Semination Semined Seminiferous Seminification Seroon Sesamum Sessile Sexlocular Shack Shadow Shagreen Silicle Silique Sinapism Sinepite Singularity Solitary Sow-thistle Sowed Sower Sowing Sown Sperm Spermatic Spermatize Spring Sprout Stallion Stead Steep Stipe Stock Stone-fruit Strew Surety Swim Tail Tamarinds Tergifetous Tetraspermous Thin Three-seeded Tillage Tilled Tiller Tilth Treacle-mustard Tribe Tricoccous Trilocular Trispermous Tunic Twifallowing Two-seeded Umbilical Underfurrow Undistinguished Unseeded Unsowed Utricle Variety Vasculiferous Vegetable Vegeto-animal Vitality Viviparous Vomic Wheat Whitewood Wing Winged Womb Worm-seed Yolk Zeine
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