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seed English

Meaning seed meaning

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seed

A seed is a small round thing that can grow to be a plant, a flower or a tree. She put the seeds into the ground in the garden so that food and flowers would grow.

seed

To plant seeds in an area. I'm going to seed the garden so vegetables grow there.

seed

a small hard fruit a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa go to seed; shed seeds The dandelions went to seed bear seeds help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain seed clouds remove the seeds from seed grapes inoculate with microorganisms (= seeded player) one of the outstanding players in a tournament (= source) anything that provides inspiration for later work (= ejaculate) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract (= sow) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth She sowed sunflower seeds

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seed · verb

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Simple sentences

The small seed became a large tree.
You can add sesame seed oil or some seasoning.
If you plant an apple seed, it might grow into a tree.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.
Bad seed must produce bad corn.
When did you seed the lawn?
The seed is beginning to germinate.

Movie subtitles

You probably thought Jethro tull, the english agricultural pioneer, invented the seed drill.
When the seed to God's kingdom I lay My Lord has promised sunlit skies God will never lead you astray.
She hoped to replant in good soil the seed that had fallen among thorns. And she may well have succeeded had it not been for.
You know the one with the seed pearls?
But it looks to me like it's gone to seed.
A people that does not protect the purity of its race, goes to seed!
Grew them as nature does, from seed.
I was gonna give each family 10 acres, a horse, a cow and some seed. and if they worked the farm for three years, it's theirs.
Well, I've provided barren soil for that seed.. butyou'llgiveitfertility and growth and fruition.
You, Varka's seed.
That means noodles with poppy seed topping.
When the seed of our sin appears before us?
Got any vegetables or seed?
Well, I seed her come in.
Gaston, I know you're awfully busy, and, well, I don't wanna trouble you, but she has one little necklace. You know the one with the seed pearls? It's so quiet and simple.
Give each family 10 acres, a horse, a cow and some seed, and if they worked the farm for three years, it's theirs.
Bad little seed!
This scamp and my scapegrace son crept into my garden and gorged themselves on my seed melons one year.
Oh, now I've planted a seed in your mind.
Gonna get me a good mule and some seed cotton and some guano, and I'm gonna.
Not if Mr. Tim was to come, give you a mule and some seed cotton some guano and the sun would shine day and night you still ain't gonna have no crop this year.
Well all I need is a mule and some seed cotton, and guano.
We'll save them for seed. A toast.
Let him live in the beauty and vigour of his seed.
Did poor Mama's silly dreaming plant in my brain some seed which was afterwards to grow into the most sensational criminal endeavour of the century?
Grape seed that is not escaped with Henrietta.
From Belial's seed sprang the Vampyre Nosferatu, who liveth and feedeth on human bloode.
They got seed in them.
Seed wheat, isn't it?
That's the best seed that ever got into a gunnysack.
This seed will produce the heaviest head of whiteflower wheat that's ever been grown.
Plant your seed.
You know the one with the seed pearls? It's so quiet and simple.
You know, a girl learns plenty around here you don't find in seed catalogs.
The simple things are all that counts, Johnny- some seed for good ground, rain and sun to bring them up, wood for a fire when the snow comes, a night like this, some good neighbors, of course- just plain people with common decency, loyalty, honesty.
We'll save them for seed.

News and current affairs

Ten of 21 branches of Dutch agribusiness, including horticultural seeds, ornamentals, seed potatoes, and veal, are among the top contributors to the national economy and the country's trade balance.
I think of it as seed money for a wholesale reconfiguration of global industry.
Gene flow from wild relatives to crop plants may even be encouraged by subsistence farmers to maintain the broad genetic base of the varieties that they plant using seed harvested from an earlier crop.
Such gene flow does not occur when farmers buy their seeds from seed producers, of course, but in that case gene flow in the other direction is still possible, with genes from the cultivated crop ending up in the wild relative.
Low farm yields can be addressed through improved seed varieties specially adapted for African conditions, combined with technologies for replenishing soil and managing water.
Through improved seed stocks and more efficient water management, we can have crops that require less water, grow at higher density, and thrive in wider temperature ranges.
The risk was that the seed might grow moldy during the long, humid ocean transport to Iraq if it was not dressed with some fungicide.
The current refugee crisis could be the seed from which such a European ethos grows and spreads.
Rich countries should help African farmers use improved seed varieties, more fertilizer, and better water management, such as small-scale irrigation.
He promised to slash poppy production in return for tractors, seed, and other goodies.
Moreover, the university's Startup Sauna seed-accelerator program helps promising early-stage startups take their first steps toward success.
Individual farmers were taxed until they entered the collective, and collective farms were allowed to seize individual farmers' seed grain, used to plant the next year's harvest.
Although the fuel bank never emerged, the seed for the organization took root, giving rise to the IAEA in 1957.
Getting seed and fertilizer to smallholder farmers at highly subsidized prices (or even free in some cases) will make a lasting difference.
Peasant farmers in Africa, Haiti, and other impoverished regions currently plant their crops without the benefit of high-yield seed varieties and fertilizers.
These pooled funds would enable farmers in poor countries to obtain the fertilizer, improved seed varieties, and small-scale irrigation equipment that they urgently need.
In doing so, he planted the seed of the values-based approach that was adopted by the US as it spearheaded the development of the rules and structures that order today's world.
Around the world, government-run agricultural banks in poor countries once not only financed inputs, but also provided agricultural advice and spread new seed technologies.
Poor farmers lost access to fertilizers and improved seed varieties. They could not obtain bank financing.
Such efforts, Zheng reports, have involved some 6,533 cannons, 5,939 rocket launchers, and numerous aircraft in an attempt to seed clouds across one-third of China's landmass with dry ice, ammonia, and silver iodide.
Ironically, Japan now offers a seed of hope for agricultural liberalization.
Poor farmers lost access to fertilizers and improved seed varieties.
The fact that virtually all US maize and soybean farmers, and all papaya farmers, use GM seed indicates that it is good business for them.
But maybe those who oppose private seed corporations are really against capitalism and the market economy rather than GM seed.
These suicides are most frequent where farmers grow cotton, and appear directly linked to the presence of seed monopolies.

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