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A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
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Any small seed-like fruit.
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If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
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Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
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(collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
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The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
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A fragment of coral.
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Semen.
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A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
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A precursor.
example
the seed of an idea; which idea was the seed (idea)?
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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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Offspring, descendants, progeny.
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the seed of Abraham
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Race; generation; birth.
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A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.