seed

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   remove the seeds from

   seed grapes

2. 2
   verb

   sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain

   seed clouds

3. 3
   verb

   place seeds in or on the ground for future growth

   We seeded the lawn.

4. 4
   verb

   go to seed

   shed seeds

5. 5
   noun

   Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

   […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]

6. 6
   noun

   An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.

   The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

7. 7
   noun

   Semen.

   A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.

8. 8
   noun

   A precursor.

   the seed of an idea

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”). Cognates 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…