Seeds
/siːdz/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Seeds
noun
- A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- Any small seed-like fruit.
"If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn."
- Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- (collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
"The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed."
- A fragment of coral.
verb
- To plant or sow an area with seeds.
"I seeded my lawn with bluegrass."
- To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
"A venture capitalist seeds young companies."
- To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
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germ