seed
1. a small hard fruit (Freq. 12)
• Derivationally related forms:
seedy
• Hypernyms:
fruit
• Hyponyms:
edible seed, coffee bean, coffee berry, coffee, pip,
bonduc nut, nicker nut, nicker seed, Job's tears, oilseed, oil-rich seed,
safflower seed, grain, caryopsis, ash-key, coquilla nut, babassu nut,
cohune nut, ivory nut, vegetable ivory, apple nut, neem seed, buckeye,
buckeye, conker, jumping bean, jumping seed, Mexican jumping bean,
bean, nut
• Part Meronyms:
kernel, meat
2. a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa (Freq. 5)
• Hypernyms:
ovule
• Part Meronyms:
testa, episperm, seed coat, endosperm, pericarp, seed vessel
3. one of the outstanding players in a tournament
• Syn:
seeded player
• Hypernyms:
player, participant
4. anything that provides inspiration for later work
• Syn:
source, germ
• Derivationally related forms:
germinal (for: germ), germinate (for: germ)
• Hypernyms:
inspiration
• Hyponyms:
taproot, muse
5. the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
• Syn:
semen, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come
• Derivationally related forms:
ejaculate (for: ejaculate), inseminate (for: semen)
• Hypernyms:
liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
• Hyponyms:
milt
• Part Meronyms:
sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon, spermatozoan
1. go to seed;
shed seeds (Freq. 1)
- The dandelions went to seed
• Hypernyms:
spill, shed, disgorge
• Hyponyms:
reseed
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
• Hypernyms:
finance
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
3. bear seeds
• Hypernyms:
bear, turn out
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
4. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- She sowed sunflower seeds
• Syn:
sow
• Derivationally related forms:
seeder, sower (for: sow)
• Topics:
farming, agriculture, husbandry
• Hypernyms:
put, set, place, pose, position, lay
• Hyponyms:
broadcast, inseminate, sow, sow in, scatter
• Verb Group:
inseminate, sow, sow in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
5. distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
• Topics:
sport, athletics
• Hypernyms:
rate, rank, range, order, grade, place
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
6. sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
- seed clouds
• Derivationally related forms:
seeder
• Hypernyms:
process, treat
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
7. inoculate with microorganisms
• Hypernyms:
inoculate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
8. remove the seeds from
- seed grapes
• Derivationally related forms:
seeder
• Hypernyms:
remove, take, take away, withdraw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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