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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.