“Seeds” is a form of
seed
/siːd/ noun, verb, proper noun
Also a form of see
Forms seeds seeding seeded sede
- noun (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- noun (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- noun (countable) Any small seed-like fruit. “If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.”
- noun (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted. “The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.”
- noun (countable) A fragment of coral.
- noun (uncountable) Semen. “A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.”
- noun (countable, figurative) A precursor. “the seed of an idea”
- noun (sports) 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.”
- verb (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds. “I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.”
- verb (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants) “These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.”
- verb (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- verb (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of. “A venture capitalist seeds young companies.”
- verb (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- verb (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- verb (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final. “The tennis player seeded into the quarters.”
- verb (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain. “A number of clouds were seeded to help provide rain to a drought-stricken area.”
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
spawn germ seed number seeded player source semen seminal fluid ejaculate cum come sow
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”).
Cognate with Yola zeade (“seed”), North Frisian sead, seed, siad, Siid, sädj, säid (“seed”), Saterland Frisian Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), Limburgish zaod (“seed”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk sæd (“seed”), Faroese and Icelandic sáð (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Gothic *𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 (*sēþs, “seed”); also Latin serō (“to sow, plant”), Latvian sēt (“to sow”), Lithuanian sėti (“to sow”), Bulgarian се́я (séja, “to sow, plant”), Czech sít (“to sow”), Macedonian сее (see, “to sow”), Polish siać (“to sow”), Russian се́ять (séjatʹ, “to sow”), Serbo-Croatian се̏јати, sȅjati, си̏јати, sȉjati (“to sow”), Slovak siať (“to sow”), Slovene sejáti (“to sow”), Ukrainian сі́яти (síjaty, “to sow”). More at sow.
From see + -d (“past tense suffix; variant of -ed”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun (a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
- noun The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; --not used in the plural.
- verb To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
- verb To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
Etymology [OE. seed, sed, AS. s, fr. sawan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat, Icel. sa, s, Goth. manas seed of men. world. See Sow to scatter seed, and cf. Colza.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “seed”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details