Definition of seed

"seed" in the noun sense

1. seed

a small hard fruit

2. seed

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

3. seeded player, seed

one of the outstanding players in a tournament

4. source, seed, germ

anything that provides inspiration for later work

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

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

"seed" in the verb sense

1. seed

go to seed shed seeds

"The dandelions went to seed"

2. seed

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

3. seed

bear seeds

4. sow, seed

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

"She sowed sunflower seeds"

5. seed

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

6. seed

sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain

"seed clouds"

7. seed

inoculate with microorganisms

8. seed

remove the seeds from

"seed grapes"

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Quotations for seed

Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed. [ Tennyson ]

Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Make knowledge circle with the winds;
But let her herald, Reverence, fly
Before her to whatever sky
Bear seed of men and growth of minds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

My inheritance how wide and fair!
Time is my seed-field, to Time I'm heir. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. [ Walt Whitman ]

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man. [ George MacDonald ]

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]

Old gossips are usually young flirts gone to seed. [ J. L. Basford ]

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown.
Shall pass on to ages; all about me forgotten.
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done. [ Horatius Bonar ]

He a soldier, and knows not onion-seed from gun-powder? [ Proverb ]

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber. [ Johnson ]

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [ Manilius ]

In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed. [ Massey ]

Praise begets emulation, - a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. [ Horace Mann ]

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character? [ Thoreau ]

There is the seed of all sins - of the vilest and worst of sins - in the best of men. [ Thomas Brooks ]

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance. [ Whately ]

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life; and all is seed, and all is fruit. [ Schiller ]

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Blessed is he that continueth where he is; here let us rest and lay out seed-fields; here let us learn to dwell. [ Carlyle ]

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies: but sensible men will pay no attention to them. [ Froude ]

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revery is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. [ Tupper ]

Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper. [ Hitopadesa ]

Human action is a seed of circumstances scattered in the dark land of the future and hopefully left to the powers that rule human destiny. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, - they have torn me, and I bleed: I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. [ Byron ]

To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds: prone to distrust, because apt to deceive. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

Poetry incorporates those spirits which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; and sheds the perfume of those flowers which spring up but never bear any seed. [ Jean Paul ]

Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed today, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. [ Carlyle ]

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]

It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. [ Albert Barnes ]

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]

seed in Scrabble®

The word seed is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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seed in Words With Friends™

The word seed is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters seed:

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Word Growth involving seed

Shorter words in seed

see

Longer words containing seed

aniseed

axseed axseeds flaxseeds

axseed flaxseed flaxseeds

beniseed beniseeds

birdseed birdseeds

bladderseed

cloudseed cloudseeded

cloudseed cloudseeder cloudseeders

cloudseed cloudseeding

cloudseed cloudseeds

cottonseed cottonseeds

cuminseed

deseed deseeded

deseed deseeding

deseed deseeds

fricasseed

hagseed hagseeds

hayseed hayseeds

hempseed hempseeds

linseed

nutseed nutseeds

oilseed oilseeds

overseed overseeded

overseed overseeding

overseed overseeds

poppyseed poppyseeds

pumpkinseed pumpkinseeds

rapeseed grapeseed grapeseeds

rapeseed rapeseeds grapeseeds

reseed reseeded

reseed reseeding

reseed reseeds

seedbed seedbeds

seedbox seedboxes

seedcake seedcakes

seedcase seedcases

seedcount seedcounter seedcounters

seedcount seedcounting

seedcount seedcounts

seedeater seedeaters

seeded cloudseeded

seeded deseeded

seeded overseeded

seeded reseeded

seeded singleseeded

seeded unseeded

seeder cloudseeder cloudseeders

seeder seeders cloudseeders

seedier

seediest

seedily

seediness

seeding cloudseeding

seeding deseeding

seeding hydroseeding

seeding overseeding

seeding reseeding

seeding seedings

seedless

seedlike

seedling seedlings

seedpod seedpods

seeds axseeds flaxseeds

seeds beniseeds

seeds birdseeds

seeds cloudseeds

seeds cottonseeds

seeds deseeds

seeds hagseeds

seeds hayseeds

seeds hempseeds

seeds nutseeds

seeds oilseeds

seeds overseeds

seeds poppyseeds

seeds pumpkinseeds

seeds rapeseeds grapeseeds

seeds reseeds

seeds seedstalk seedstalks

seeds seedstock seedstocks

seeds tickseeds stickseeds

seeds velvetseeds

seedtime seedtimes

seedy

tickseed stickseed stickseeds

tickseed tickseeds stickseeds

underseed

velvetseed velvetseeds