seed

Definitions of seed in various dictionaries:

noun - a small hard fruit

noun - a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

noun - one of the outstanding players in a tournament

noun - anything that provides inspiration for later work

noun - the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

verb - go to seed

verb - help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

verb - bear seeds

verb - place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth

verb - distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds

verb - sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain

verb - inoculate with microorganisms

verb - remove the seeds from

A ripened plant ovule containing an embryo.

A propagative part of a plant, as a tuber or spore.

Seeds considered as a group.

The seed-bearing stage of a plant.

Something that resembles a seed, as a tiny bubble in a piece of glass or a small crystal added to a solution to start crystallization.

A source or beginning; a germ.

Offspring; progeny.

Family stock; ancestry.

Sperm; semen.

A seed oyster or oysters; spat.

A player who has been seeded for a tournament, often at a given rank: a top seed.

To plant seeds in (land, for example); sow.

To plant in soil.

To remove the seeds from (fruit).

To sprinkle (a cloud) with particles, as of silver iodide, in order to disperse it or produce rain.

Sports.

To arrange (the drawing for positions in a tournament) so that the more skilled contestants meet in the later rounds.

To rank (a contestant) in this way.

To help (a business, for example) in its early development.

To sow seed.

To go to seed.

Set aside for planting a new crop: seed corn; seed wheat.

Intended to help in early stages: provided seed capital for a fledgling business.

To pass into the seed-bearing stage.

To become weak or devitalized; deteriorate: The old neighborhood has gone to seed.

verb - to plant seeds (propagative plant structures) in

SEED - A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering. The formation of the seed is part of the process of reproduction in seed plants...