Meaning

(countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
2. (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
3. (countable) A fragment of coral.
4. (uncountable) Semen.
5. (countable, figurative) A precursor.
6. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
7. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
8. Race; generation; birth.

Example Sentences

[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]

The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.

And if any mans seede of copulation goe out from him, then hee shall wash all his flesh in water, and bee vncleane vntill the Euen.

the seed of an idea

Which idea was the seed (idea)?

Sometimes it takes more than you have / To benefit from what you know / Sometimes you keep pouring water / But the seeds don't grow, woah

the seed of Abraham

Word Forms

• seeds
• sede
• seeding
• seeded

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