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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   seed

   • IPA[sēd]

   美式

   • n.
     a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant；a quantity of seeds
   • v.
     sow (land) with seeds；sow (a particular kind of seed) on or in the ground

   • verb: seed, 3rd person present: seeds, gerund or present participle: seeding, past tense: seeded, past participle: seeded

   • noun: seed, plural noun: seeds

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant cut open the peppers and remove the seeds seed capsules 同義詞 pip, stone, pit, nut, kernel, ... 更多germ, technicalovule
   • ▪ a quantity of seeds grass seed you can grow artichokes from seed
   • ▪ the cause or latent beginning of a feeling, process, or condition the conversation sowed a tiny seed of doubt in his mind 同義詞 genesis, source, origin, root, starting point, ... 更多germ, beginnings, potential (for), cause, reason, motivation, motive, base, basis, foundation, bottom, seat, fundamental, core, nucleus, heart, kernel, nub, essence, fons et origo, literaryfountainhead, wellspring, fount
   • 2. a man's semen. 同義詞 semen, sperm, spermatic fluid, seminal fluid, milt, ... 更多ejaculate, emission, spermatozoa, vulgar slangcome, cum, jism, jissom, jizz, spunk
   • ▪ archaic (chiefly in biblical use) a person's offspring or descendants as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed 同義詞 descendants, heirs, successors, scions, offspring, ... 更多children, sons and daughters, progeny, family, youngsters, babies, brood, issue, informalkids, quiverful, derogatoryspawn, archaicfruit, fruit of someone's loins
   • 3. any of a number of stronger competitors in a sports tournament who have been assigned a specified position in an ordered list with the aim of ensuring that they do not play each other in the early rounds he knocked the top seed out of the championships
   • 4. a small crystal introduced into a liquid to act as a nucleus for crystallization.
   • 5. a small container for radioactive material placed in body tissue during radiotherapy.

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. sow (land) with seeds the shoreline is seeded with a special grass
   • ▪ sow (a particular kind of seed) on or in the ground after seeding forage into the duff, they now have grassland mixed with mature forest
   • ▪ cause (something) to begin to develop or grow severance payouts that help seed their new businesses
   • ▪ place a crystal or crystalline substance in (something) in order to cause crystallization or condensation (especially in a cloud to produce rain) potential hail clouds are observed by radar, then seeded by lead iodide fired into the cloud's center
   • 2. (of a plant) produce or drop seeds mulches encourage many plants to seed freely
   • ▪ (of a plant) reproduce itself by means of its own seeds feverfew will seed itself readily
   • 3. remove the seeds from (vegetables or fruit) stem and seed the chilies
   • 4. give (a competitor) the status of seed in a tournament Jeff Tarango, seeded five, was defeated by fellow American Todd Witsken

   片語

   • go to seed