seed
Definition of seed:
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part of speech: verb
To produce seed.
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part of speech: noun
See Semen.
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part of speech: noun
That part of a plant which contains the rudiment or embryo of the future plant; that peculiar secretion in animals by which the ova is vitalised; that from which anything springs; offspring; descendants; race; very much used in composition as an adjective.
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
The thing sown: the substance produced by plants and animals from which new plants and animals are generated: first principle: original: descendants.
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Common misspellings:
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- sed (33.3%)
- seeed (3.7%)
- sead (55.6%)
- seend (3.7%)
- see'd (3.7%)
Usage examples for seed:
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Overhead has been the battle of the elements, as on earth the quiet growth of the seed of truth which fell from the Master's hand.
"Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn" – George Tybout Purves -
The seed of corn would easily be discovered to have a food- value, and the discovery of the growth of the plant from the seed would not require a very high intelligence.
"The Story of Evolution" – Joseph McCabe -
The warm days came, the gentle rain fell, and the seed in the poor man's half of the field sprang up and put forth leaves.
"The Book of Nature Myths" – Florence Holbrook
