Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SEED

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Definitions of SEED

1. Race; generation; birth.
2. A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
3. (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
4. (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
5. (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
6. (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
7. (countable) A fragment of coral.
8. (uncountable) Semen.
9. (countable, figurative) A precursor.
10. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
11. (nowrare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
12. (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
13. (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
14. (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
15. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
16. (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
17. (internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
18. (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final or final.
19. (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
20. (intransitive) To produce seed.
21. (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
22. (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
23. (dialectal) inflection of see
24. A surname.

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Examples of Using SEED in a Sentence

• Along with the peach, it is classified in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by corrugations on the shell (endocarp) surrounding the seed.
• A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food.
• Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and other animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; humans and many other animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food.
• Flood fill, also called seed fill, is a flooding algorithm that determines and alters the area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array with some matching attribute.
• Mendel worked with seven characteristics of pea plants: plant height, pod shape and color, seed shape and color, and flower position and color.
• Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants.
• The tree and the cotton-like fluff obtained from its seed pods are commonly known in English as kapok, a Malay-derived name which originally applied to Bombax ceiba, a native of tropical Asia.
• Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.
• Both names "plumcot" and "apriplum" have been used for trees derived from a plum seed parent, and are therefore equivalent.
• Rudolf's legacy has traditionally been viewed in three ways: an ineffectual ruler whose mistakes led directly to the Thirty Years' War; a great and influential patron of Northern Mannerist art; and an intellectual devotee of occult arts and learning which helped seed what would be called the Scientific Revolution.
• The cones of this dioecious tree are berry-like, with a single (rarely two) 7–11 mm seed apical on an 8–14 mm pink-purple aril; the aril is edible and sweet.
• The organisation manages botanic gardens at Kew in Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, and at Wakehurst, a National Trust property in Sussex which is home to the internationally important Millennium Seed Bank, whose scientists work with partner organisations in more than 95 countries.
• In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food.
• Research and tourism have become important supplementary industries, with the University Centre in Svalbard and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault playing critical roles in the local economy.
• Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
• Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice)—or, much less commonly, Oryza glaberrima (African rice).
• In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa).
• The patties are often served with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, bacon, or chilis with condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, relish or a "special sauce", often a variation of Thousand Island dressing, and are frequently placed on sesame seed buns.
• A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that separates grain seed from the stalks and husks.
• The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural).
• Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.
• A fortune cookie is a crisp and sugary cookie wafer made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside, a "fortune", an aphorism, or a vague prophecy.
• Nut (fruit), fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed, or a collective noun for dry and edible fruits or seeds.
• can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which botanically is a drupe, not a nut.
• The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group: namely, that the seed has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons.

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