Synonyms for seed
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1. seed

   We set or set out slips, cuttings, young trees, etc., tho we may also be said to plant them; we plant corn, potatoes, etc., which we put in definite places, as in hills, with some care; we sow wheat or other small grains and seeds which are scattered in the process. Tho by modern agricultural machinery the smaller grains are almost as precisely planted as corn, the old word for broadcast scattering is retained. Land is seeded or seeded down to grass.

   Synonyms:
   plant, seed down, set, set out, sow

   Antonyms:
   eradicate, extirpate, root up, uproot, weed out

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1. seed

   Synonyms:
   spring, origin, cause, germ, embryo, root

   Antonyms:
   issue, result, birth, product, development, offspring, fruit

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. seednoun

   a small hard fruit

   Synonyms:
   ejaculate, seminal fluid, semen, seeded player, germ, source, come, cum

2. seednoun

   a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

   Synonyms:
   ejaculate, seminal fluid, semen, seeded player, germ, source, come, cum

3. seeded player, seednoun

   one of the outstanding players in a tournament

   Synonyms:
   ejaculate, seminal fluid, semen, seeded player, source, germ, come, cum

4. source, seed, germnoun

   anything that provides inspiration for later work

   Synonyms:
   generator, rootage, seeded player, bug, reference, informant, germ, seminal fluid, beginning, semen, cum, root, microbe, come, source, ejaculate, author, origin, reservoir

5. semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, comeverb

   the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

   Synonyms:
   ejaculate, seminal fluid, semen, seeded player, source, germ, come, cum

6. seedverb

   go to seed; shed seeds

   "The dandelions went to seed"

   Synonyms:
   sow

7. seedverb

   help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

   Synonyms:
   sow

8. seedverb

   bear seeds

   Synonyms:
   sow

9. sow, seedverb

   place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth

   "She sowed sunflower seeds"

   Synonyms:
   inseminate, sow in, sow

10. seedverb

    distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds

    Synonyms:
    sow

11. seedverb

    sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain

    "seed clouds"

    Synonyms:
    sow

12. seedverb

    inoculate with microorganisms

    Synonyms:
    sow

13. seedverb

    remove the seeds from

    "seed grapes"

    Synonyms:
    sow

Matched Categories

1. • Agriculture
   • Bear
   • Finance
   • Fruit
   • Inoculate
   • Inspiration
   • Ovule
   • Place
   • Rank
   • Remove
   • Shed
   • Sport
   • Treat

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1. seednoun

   Synonyms:
   semen, sperm

2. seednoun

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) embryo (with its envelope or pericarp), matured ovule, kernel, grain

3. seednoun

   Synonyms:
   original, first principle

4. seednoun

   Synonyms:
   progeny, offspring, descendants, children

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1. seednoun

   Synonyms:
   semen, sperm, first principle, origin, source

2. seednoun

   Synonyms:
   kernel, grain, pip, ovule

   Associated words:
   carpology, spermologist, seminal, semination, seminific, spermophyte, angiosperm, pericarp, angiospermous, carpolite, germinate, germination, achene, carpel, spermophyta, silique, silicle, weevil, chorion, testa, tegmen, endopleura, capsule, pod

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1. List of paraphrases for "seed":

   seeds, semences, semillas, semen, start-up, spat, pre-startup, sperm, plants, grain, seeding, sowing, semi

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How to use seed in a sentence?

1. Salt Lake Tribune:

   FLDS men are no longer permitted to have children with their multiple wives. That privilege belongs to the seed bearer alone, it is the husband's responsibility to hold the hands of their wives while the seed bearer 'spreads his seed.' In layman terms, the husband is required to sit in the room while the chosen seed bearer, or a couple of them, rape his wife or wives.

2. Gyorgy Balint:

   For a gardener, every day a flower blooms, a seed starts to grow, and a tomato ripens.

3. Wesley D'Amico:

   the determined seed grows regardless of the opinion of trees that do not bear fruit.

4. Margaret Lindsey:

   This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

5. Rick Irving:

   Like the number of apples Contained within a single apple seed Each opportunity that we seize Contains an untold number of benefits.