seed

  • 41seed*/*/*/ — [siːd] noun I 1) [C/U] a small hard part produced by a plant that can grow into a new plant of the same type a packet of seeds[/ex] You can sow grass seed to cover the worn patches.[/ex] I grew these herbs from seed.[/ex] 2) [C] a player who is… …

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  • 42seed —    Ano ano, hua; hua kanu (for planting); lū (of beach poppy).    ♦ To bear seed, hua.    ♦ Seed of loulu palm, wāhane, hāwane.    ♦ Seed of āweoweo (a shrub), mokiweo.    ♦ Seed of kā e e, pēka a, pīpā …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 43Seed — Recorded in the spellings of Seed, Seeds, and Seedman, this is an English medieval surname. It may be occupational, and as such describe a grower of seeds or a supplier of seed, the derivation being from the Olde English word sede , but it is… …

    Surnames reference

  • 44seed — Synonyms and related words: Anlage, acorn, affiliation, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, apparentation, basis, bed, berry, bird seed, birth, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, broadcast, brood, bud, bulb, cause, children, common ancestry,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 45seed — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. germ, ovule, semen, milt; cause, origin; offspring, children, descendants; grain, corn. See beginning, organic matter, posterity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A botanical ovule]. Seeds and fruits commonly… …

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  • 46seed — noun 1》 a flowering plant s unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant.     ↘a quantity of these. 2》 the beginning of a feeling, process, or condition. 3》 any of a number of stronger competitors in a sports tournament who …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 47seed — noun 1) apple seeds Syn: pip, stone, kernel; ovule 2) each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war Syn: genesis, source, origin, root, starting point, germ, beginnings, poten …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 48seed — see good seed makes a good crop the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church parsley seed goes nine times to the devil one year’s seeding makes seven years’ weeding …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 49seed — See: GO TO SEED or RUN TO SEED …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 50seed — See: GO TO SEED or RUN TO SEED …

    Dictionary of American idioms