Seed

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

(noun.) a small hard fruit.

(verb.) remove the seeds from; 'seed grapes'.

(verb.) inoculate with microorganisms.

(verb.) sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; 'seed clouds'.

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

(verb.) go to seed; shed seeds; 'The dandelions went to seed'.

(verb.) bear seeds.

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

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• Is the estate going to seed? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Many cultivated plants display the utmost vigour, and yet rarely or never seed! 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It was a machine mounted on two wheels, that had a seed box in the bottom of which was a series of holes opening into a corresponding number of metal tubes or funnels. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I seed him a hauf an hour--nay, happen a quarter of an hour sin', just afore I set off. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• We see this acted on by farmers and gardeners in their frequent exchanges of seed, tubers, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I seed a gal in one of 'em down Wappin' way as guv a song called, 'Tap me on the shoulder, Bill. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He sowed different seeds from the same machine, and arranged that they might be covered at different depths. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The raw cotton was put in a hopper, where it was met by the teeth of the saws, and torn from the seeds. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• We cannot tell what seeds of the future may not be germinating already amidst our present confusions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When I saw the great size of the seeds of that fine water-lily, the Nelumbium, and remembered Alph. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But in some of these plants the seeds also differ in shape and sculpture. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The store of nutriment laid up within the seeds of many plants seems at first sight to have no sort of relation to other plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Habit is hereditary with plants, as in the period of flowering, in the time of sleep, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to germinate, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The reptile is on all fours with the seeding plant in its freedom from the necessity to pass any stage of its life cycle in water. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Washington and others in America had also commenced to invent and experiment with seeding machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is true that, as in the case of the ploughs, attempts had been made through the centuries to invent and improve seeding implements. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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