seed
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
Noun 3 meanings
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
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 4 meanings
To plant or sow an area with seeds.
“I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.”
To shed seeds (refers to plants)
“These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.”
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.”
Etymology
] From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”).
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SEED at a glance
SEED has 4 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (S 1 + E 1 + E 1 + D 2) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,771 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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