Word Finder - seed

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(countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

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(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.

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(countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

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(uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.

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(countable) A fragment of coral.

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(uncountable) Semen.

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(countable, figurative) A precursor.

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(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

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(now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.

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Race; generation; birth.

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(physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.

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A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

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(transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.

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(transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

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(transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

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(sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

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(Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).

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(intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.

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(meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.

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(intransitive) To produce seed.

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(intransitive) To grow to maturity.

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(slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

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(dialectal) simple past and past participle of see