Definitions for Seed

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IPA: /sid/

Seed is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Seed (dees).

Definitions for Seed

noun

1. the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
2. any propagative part of a plant, including tubers, bulbs, etc., especially as preserved for growing a new crop.
3. such parts collectively.
4. any similar small part or fruit.
5. Dialect. pit2 .
6. the germ or propagative source of anything:
7. offspring; progeny.
8. birth:
9. sperm; semen.
10. the ovum or ova of certain animals, as the lobster and the silkworm moth.
11. seed oyster.
12. a small air bubble in a glass piece, caused by defective firing.
13. Crystallography, Chemistry. a small crystal added to a solution to promote crystallization.
14. Tennis. a player who has been seeded in a tournament.

Idioms

1. go / run to seed, (of the flower of a plant) to pass to the stage of yielding seed. to lose vigor, power, or prosperity; deteriorate:
2. in seed, (of certain plants) in the state of bearing ripened seeds. (of a field, a lawn, etc.) sown with seed.

adjective

1. of or producing seed; used for seed:
2. being or providing capital for the initial stages of a new business or other enterprise:

verb (used with object)

1. to sow (a field, lawn, etc.) with seed.
2. to sow or scatter (seed).
3. to sow or scatter (clouds) with crystals or particles of silver iodide, solid carbon dioxide, etc., to induce precipitation.
4. to place, introduce, etc., especially in the hope of increase or profit:
5. to sprinkle on (a surface, substance, etc.) in the manner of seed:
6. to remove the seeds from (fruit).
7. Sports. to arrange (the drawings for positions in a tournament) so that ranking players or teams will not meet in the early rounds of play. to distribute (ranking players or teams) in this manner.
8. to develop or stimulate (a business, project, etc.), especially by providing operating capital.

verb (used without object)

1. to sow seed.
2. to produce or shed seed.

Origin of Seed

before 900; (noun) Middle English sede, side, seed(e), Old English sēd, sǣd; cognate with German Saat, Old Norse sāth, Gothic -seths; (v.) Middle English seden to produce seeds, derivative of

Examples for Seed

To hear Cianci tell it, in the last 13 years Providence is a city that has gone to seed.

I remember next being a seed, and going through each stage of evolution.

When you were setting out to work on The Giver, what planted the seed for this dark, utopian society?

"It was when the seed corn was gathered that we had the first hint of trouble," she went on.

Margaret likes Kitty and Mrs. Bartlett,—so does everybody,—but old Bartlett's a seed.

For no matter how hungry the people may become the seed corn must not be eaten.

He said he hoped their “shed blood [would] act as a seed of hope in order to build authentic brotherhood among peoples.”

Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

An' I seed her touch his coat-tail, like as if she loved it, but didn't dast do no more.

Famously, Ted Turner in 1997 founded the United Nations Foundation with a generous $1 billion in seed money.