A seed is basically a baby plant it's the way plants reproduce. One tiny sunflower seed can potentially grow into a sunflower that's ten feet tall.
A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings;
Noun
the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
Noun
anything that provides inspiration for later work
Noun
one of the outstanding players in a tournament
Noun
a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
Noun
a small hard fruit
Verb
remove the seeds from; "seed grapes"
Verb
inoculate with microorganisms
Verb
sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds"
Verb
distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
Verb
place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds"
Verb
go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed"
Verb
bear seeds
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help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
pl.
of Seed
n.
A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more
integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By
germination it produces a new plant.
n.
Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a
pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip
seed; thistle seed.
n.
The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used
in the plural.
n.
That from which anything springs; first principle; original;
source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
n.
The principle of production.
n.
Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of
Abraham; the seed of David.
n.
Race; generation; birth.
v. t.
To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to
seed a field.
v. t.
To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with
seedlike decorations.
Seed
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself.
Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed.5.
Of mortal seed they were not held.
Seed
A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes.
A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings;
To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow;
Usage Examples
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
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Other Usage ExamplesAnyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.