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seed(1) (iou)



seed noun. [si:d]

a. That which is or may be sown (freq. as obj. of SOW verb1); the fertilized ovules of a plant or plants, esp. in the form of small roundish bodies or grains dispersed naturally or collected for sowing to produce a new generation of plants. Also (Agriculture & Horticulture) any of various Other parts of plants (e.g. tubers, bulbs) by which a new crop may be propagated (freq. attrib., as seed potato etc.). In pl., varieties or kinds of seed. OE.
J. M. Campbell We plough the fields and scatter The good seed on the land.
b. An individual grain of seed; Botany the fertilized ovule of an angiosperm or gymnosperm, composed of a plant embryo, often with a Food store, in a protective coat (testa). Also loosely, the spore of a lower plant; a small hard fruit resembling a seed. OE.
Anthony Huxley Gauzy seeds are released to be carried away on the wind.
c. A particle of bran. Usu. in pl. Now dial. L16.
d. In pl. Corn; clover and grasses raised from seed; land sown with this. Chiefly dial. L18.
e. = birdseed s.v. BIRD noun. L19.
a. fig. The germ or latent beginning of some growth, development, or consequence. Also, religious or Other teaching, viewed esp. with regard to its degree of fruitfulness (with allus. to the parables in Matthew 13, Mark 4, Luke 8). OE.
M. L. King Evil carries the seed of its own destruction.
b. A small crystal introduced into a solution or liquid to provide a nucleus for crystal growth, orig. spec. of sugar; a nucleus for any kind of growth, condensation, etc. Also seed crystal. E20.
Scientific American Galaxies grew rapidly from the seeds formed in earlier density fluctuations.
Offspring, progeny. Now arch. & in biblical allusions. OE.
Book of Common Prayer As he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed, for ever.
Semen, sperm. ME.
sing. & in pl. The eggs of a silkworm moth. Also, the eggs or young of an oyster or Other shellfish, esp. as used as to restock a commercial bed (freq. attrib., as seed oyster etc.). E17.
Minute bubbles formed in glass. M19.
Medicine. A small container for radioactive material placed in body tissue in radiotherapy. Freq. as RADON seed. E20.
Sport (esp. Tennis). A player or competitor seeded (at a specified position) in a tournament. Cf. SEED verb 7. M20.
number 4 seed, second seed, third seed, top seed, etc.
Phrases: go to seed, grow to seed (a) (of a plant) cease flowering as seeds develop; (b) fig. become habitually unkempt, ineffective, etc.; deteriorate. in seed (of a plant) at the stage of growth at which seeds are borne. Niger seed: see NIGER noun2 2. run to seed = go to seed above. sow the seed of, sow the seeds of: see SOW verb1.
Comb.: seed ball a globose, usu. dry or capsular fruit; esp. any of the hard swollen fruiting units in the beet plant; seed bank a place where seeds of different plant varieties and species are stored as a safeguard against their possible extinction; seed-bed (a) a piece of ground prepared for sowing seeds; (b) transf. & fig. a place used or favourable for development; seed-bird a bird, esp. a wagtail or a seagull, which frequently follows behind ploughs to feed on newly exposed seeds; seed-box (a) a receptacle for seed, esp. in a grain-drill or machine for sowing seed; (b) US any plant of the genus Ludwigia, of the willowherb family, so called from its cubical pod; seed bull a bull kept to serve cows; seed-cake a cake flavoured with whole seeds, esp. of caraway; seed-coat Botany the testa or protective coat of a seed; seed-corn (a) good-quality grain (occas. a grain) of corn for sowing in order to produce a new crop; (b) assets or an asset used or reused for future profit or benefit; (c) seed-corn maggot (US), the yellowish-white larva of a fly, Hylemya platura, which infests the seed of various crops, esp. Vegetables, preventing sprouting or weakening the seedlings; the adult fly of this larva; seed-cotton cotton in its native state, with the seed not separated; seed crystal: see sense 2b above; seed dressing (the use of) a preparation applied to seed to protect it against pests; seed-eater a granivorous bird; spec. a S. American finch of the genus Sporophila or a related genus; seed fat a fat obtained from seeds, such as those of the coconut, soya, groundnut, etc.; seed fern = PTERIDOSPERM; seed-field a field or Other place in which seed is sown; seed-fish a fish that is ready to spawn; seed-furrow noun & verb (a) noun (the process of producing) a furrow in which seed is to be sown; (b) verb trans. plough a seed-furrow into (land); seed-head a flower-head in seed; seed-lac: see LAC noun1 1. seed-leaf (a) Botany a cotyledon; (b) a kind of tobacco grown in the northern US (orig. from imported seed) and used chiefly for wrapping cigars; seed-lip [var. of LEAP noun2] a basket in which seed is carried when sowing by hand; seed metering automatic control of the numbers of seeds sown or planted by a machine; seed money money allocated (esp. from public funds) for the initiation of a project and designed to stimulate its independent economic expansion; seed orchard a group of trees cultivated for the production of seed; seed parent a plant whose seed is fertilized by pollen from a different plant to produce a hybrid; seed-pearl a minute pearl resembling a seed; such pearls collectively; seed-plant a spermatophyte; seed-plot a seed-bed (now only transf. & fig.); seed potato: see sense 1a above; seed set: see SET noun1 8c; seedsnipe each of four S. American birds resembling small partridges and constituting the family Thinocoridae, allied to the sandpipers; seed stitch Embroidery = SEEDING noun (c); seed-vessel Botany a capsule or Other case containing a plant's seeds; seed year a year in which a particular tree produces a good crop of seeds. See also SEEDSMAN, SEED-TIME.
seedful adjective (rare) full of seed, productive L16.
seedless adjective LME.
seedlet noun a small seed M19.
seedlike adjective resembling (that of) a seed E18.

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