seed
noun
[ siːd ]
• the unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant.
• "cut open the peppers and remove the seeds"
• a man's semen.
Similar:
semen,
sperm,
spermatic fluid,
seminal fluid,
milt,
ejaculate,
emission,
spermatozoa,
come,
cum,
jism,
jissom,
jizz,
spunk,
• any of a number of stronger competitors in a sports tournament who have been assigned a specified position in an ordered list with the aim of ensuring that they do not play each other in the early rounds.
• "he knocked the top seed out of the championships"
• a small crystal introduced into a liquid to act as a nucleus for crystallization.
• a small container for radioactive material placed in body tissue during radiotherapy.
seed
verb
• sow (land) with seeds.
• "the shoreline is seeded with a special grass"
• (of a plant) produce or drop seeds.
• "mulches encourage many plants to seed freely"
• remove the seeds from (vegetables or fruit).
• "stem and seed the chillies"
• give (a competitor) the status of seed in a tournament.
• "he was seeded second for the competition"
Origin:
Old English sǣd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaad, German Saat, also to the verb sow1.
