Seeds Siːd Sow Outdoors Spring Vegetables Grown Plant

• a packet of wild flower seeds
• sesame seeds
• sow the seeds outdoors in spring.
• these vegetables can be grown from seed.

seed

1. the small hard part produced by a plant, from which a new plant can grow
• see also birdseed
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/birdseed
• a packet of wild flower seeds
• sesame seeds
• Sow the seeds outdoors in spring.
• These vegetables can be grown from seed.
• seed potatoes (= used for planting)
• = pip
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/pip_1
2. the beginning of a feeling or a development which continues to grow
• the seeds of rebellion
• This planted the seeds of doubt in my mind.
3. one of the best players in a competition. The seeds are given a position in a list to try and make sure that they do not play each other in the early parts of the competition.
• The top seed won comfortably.
• the number one seed
4. semen
5. all the people who are the children, grandchildren, etc. of one man
6. to produce flowers and seeds as well as leaves
• The lettuces had all run to seed.
7. to become much less attractive or good because of lack of attention
• After his divorce, he let himself go to seed.
8. to start the process that leads to a particular situation or result
• In this way he sowed the seeds of his own success.

Extra Examples

• Cutting weeds before they go to seed will greatly reduce future weed problems.
• Each fruit usually contains a single seed.
• He argued that capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction.
• Most seeds are spread by the wind.
• Peel the peppers and remove the seeds.
• Serena Williams was the top seed at Wimbledon that year.
• She grew all the broccoli plants from seed.
• She was the top seed at the US Open this year.
• The catalogue has hundreds of different varieties of seeds.
• The plant will set seed in June.
• This tree produces very hard seeds.
• the transformation of Tracy from good girl to bad seed
• I bought some seeds to plant in the garden.
• She hesitated, not wishing to sow the seeds of rebellion.
• Sow the seeds outdoors in spring.
• Those vegetables can be grown from seed.
• You can buy seed potatoes from garden centres or by mail order.
• apple/orange seeds
• coriander/cumin/mustard/poppy/pumpkin/sesame/sunflower seeds

Word Origin

• Old English sǣd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaad, German Saat, also to sow1.