EGAVE

seed

About 18.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
    If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
  2. noun A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
  3. noun Any small seed-like fruit.
    If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
  4. noun An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
    The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
  5. noun A fragment of coral.
  6. noun Semen.
    A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
  7. noun A precursor.
    the seed of an idea
  8. noun The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors. The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
    The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.

Similar words

germ seminal fluid semen sow ejaculate sough source seeded player plant seedling

Often followed by

of and is in to production from for was

Word family

seeded seeding seedless seedlike seeds

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