Word Finder - seeds

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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.

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the seed of an idea; which idea was the seed (idea)?

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• germ

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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.

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To plant or sow an area with seeds.

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I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.

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

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

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A venture capitalist seeds young companies.

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To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

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

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

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The tennis player seeded into the quarters.

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To produce seed.

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To grow to maturity.

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To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

Many think that seeds improve with age.

The cotton gin cut the cost of removing seeds from cotton.

Although there was cultural opposition in India to Borlaug's methods and seeds, the famine was so bad by 1965 that the government stepped in and urged the project forward.

The digestion of fat or oil has not been adequately investigated, but its decomposition in germinating seeds has been found to be due to an enzyme, which has been called lipase.

Elisabeth started drawing as Jackson cleaned the seeds to bake them.

Its seeds are very large, and are used as food by the natives.

We find them to consist of representatives of the great classes of foodstuffs on which animal protoplasm is nourished, and whose presence renders seeds such valuable material for animal consumptien.

Among the trypsins we have the pa pain of the Papaw fruit (Carica Papaya), the bromelin of the Pine-apple, and the enzymes present in many germinating seeds, in the seedlings of several plants, and in other parts.

She studied the berry-like seeds that grew in a cluster at the top of the bush.

Their food was the meat they killed in the chase, or seeds and roots, grubs or reptiles.

They subsisted miserably on the bounty of some natives, and partly by feeding on the seeds of a plant called nardoo.

The seeds of the cryptogams or flowerless plants are not true seeds and are properly designated "spores."

The whole world is represented by the figure of a tree, of which the seeds and roots are the first indeterminate matter, the leaves the accidents, the twigs and branches corruptible creatures, the blossoms the rational soul, and the fruit pure spirits or angels.

Seeds are carried with more facility when provided with plumes or wings.

The seeds of West Indian plants are thrown on the western shores of the British Isles, and as they are capable of germination, the species are only prevented from establishing themselves by an uncongenial climate.

Birds are even more effective than wind in transporting seeds to long distances.

Fruit-pigeons are an effective means of transport in the tropics by the undigested seeds which they void in their excrement.

The British Pharmacopoeia contains (i) an extract of the fresh corm, having doses of 4 to i grain, and (2) the Vinum Colchici, made by treating the dried corm with sherry and given in doses of 10 to 30 minims. This latter is the preparation still most generally used, though the presence of veratrine both in the corm and the seeds renders the use of colchicine itself theoretically preferable.

Corn, seeds, cattle, butter and cheese are the principal produce.

Destiny helped her with planting the green bean seeds.

The seeds are roasted and eaten by the natives; the timber, which somewhat resembles walnut, is soft, fine-grained, and takes a good polish, but is not durable.

They are propagated by cuttings, or from the leaves, which are cut off and pricked in welldrained pots of sandy soil, or by the scales from the underground tubes, which are rubbed off and sown like seeds, or by the seeds, which are very small.

The fruit is ripe in July, and is an oval, yellowish, fleshy berry, containing twelve or more seeds, each surrounded by a pulpy outer coat or aril.

Italy was broken up into districts, each offering points for attack from without, and fostering the seeds of internal revolution.

Individual things are supposed to arise out of the original being, as animals and plants out of seeds.

Lucretius regards the primitive atoms (first beginnings or first bodies) as seeds out of which individual things are developed.

These atoms, which are the seeds of all things, are, however, not eternal but created by God.

We now know that many at least of the Cycadofilices bore seeds, of a type much more complex than that of most modern seed plants, and in some cases approximating to the seeds of existing Cycads.

It should be remembered that a single complete defoliation of a herbaceous annual may so incapacitate the assimilation that no stores are available for seeds, tubers, &c., for another year, or at most so little that feeble plants only come up. In the case of a tree matters run somewhat differently; most large trees in full foliage have far more assimilatory surface than is immediately necessary, and if the injury is confined to a single year it may be a small event in the life of the tree, but if repeated the cambium, bud-stores and fruiting may all suffer.

The pollination, of flowers and the dispersal of seeds by various animals are biological factors; but pollination and dispersal by the wind cannot be so regarded.

Aleurone.Aleurone is a proteid substance which occurs in seeds especially those containing oil, in the form of minute granules or large grains.

Nature therefore has provided various contrivances by which their seeds are disseminated beyond the actual position they occupy.

Quadrupeds also play their part by carrying seeds or fruits entangled in their coats.

Even insects, as in the case of South African locusts, have been found to be a means of distributing seeds.

Propagation is by the formation of new corms from the parent corm, and by seeds.

In the succeeding January or February it sends up its leaves, together with the ovary, which perfects its seeds during the summer.

The dried ripe seeds of this plant are also used in medicine.

They are exceedingly hard and difficult to pulverize, odourless, bitter and readily confused with black mustard seeds.

This Strophanthus is not remarkable for its rubber - which is mere bird lime - but for the powerful poison of its seeds, often used for poisoning arrows, but of late much in use as a drug for treating diseases of the heart.

Of the numerous other families of the Clavicornia may be mentioned the Cucujidae and Cryptophagidae, small beetles, examples of which may be found feeding on stored seeds or vegetable refuse, and the Mycetophagidae, which devour fungi.

Secondly, he knew that the greater the proportion of the Athenians who were prosperously at work in the country and therefore did not trouble to interfere in the work of government the less would be the danger of sedition, whose seeds are in a crowded city.

The leaves of the cypresses are scale-like, overlapping and generally in four rows; the female catkins are roundish, and fewer than the male; the cones consist of from six to ten peltate woody scales, which end in a curved point, and open when the seeds are ripe; the seeds are numerous and winged.

The seeds are sown in April, and come up in three or four weeks; the plants require protection from frost during their first winter.

The cones, about the size of a small walnut, bear spirally arranged imbricated scales which subtend the three-angled winged seeds.

In any case the association of Poseidon, representing the fertilizing element of moisture, with Demeter, who causes the plants and seeds to grow, is quite natural, and seems to have been widespread.

The view that the seeds of Yahwism were planted in the young Israelite nation in the days of the " exodus " conflicts with the belief that the worship of Yahweh began in the pre-Mosaic age.

The seeds are harvested from various grasses, especially from Aristida oligantha, a species known as " ant rice," which often grows in quantity close to the site selected for the nest, but the statement that the ants deliberately sow this grass is an error, due, according to Wheeler, to the sprouting of germinating seeds.

The seeds are minute and innumerable; they contain a small rudimentary embryo surrounded by a thin loose membraneous coat, and are scattered by means of hygroscopic hairs on the inside of the valves which by their movements jerk out the seeds.

The seeds, or properly fruits, are contained singly in a stony involucre or bract, which does not open until the enclosed seed germinates.

The yellow maggots devour the seeds and thus ruin the crop. When deformed fruits are noticed they should be picked off and burned immediately.