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Seed

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Verb group 4

Sow 84% connected

To sew. See Sew.

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Sow 84% connected

To sew. See Sew.

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Narrower term 13

Bean 76% connected

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

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Buckeye 76% connected

A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

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Caryopsis 76% connected

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one b…

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Coffee 76% connected

The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and…

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Coquilla nut 76% connected

The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.).

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Grain 76% connected

See Groan.

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Milt 76% connected

The spleen.

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Muse 76% connected

A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

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Nicker nut 76% connected

A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of trop…

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Nut 76% connected

The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing…

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Oilseed 76% connected

Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.

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Pip 76% connected

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…

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Taproot 76% connected

The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.

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Broader term 30

Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Disgorge 76% connected

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in…

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Finance 76% connected

The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available mo…

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Fruit 76% connected

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; --…

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Grade 76% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Humor 76% connected

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

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Humour 76% connected

the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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Inoculate 76% connected

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

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Inspiration 76% connected

The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the ches…

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Lay 76% connected

of Lie, to recline.

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Ovule 76% connected

The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the…

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Participant 76% connected

Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Player 76% connected

One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.

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Pose 76% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Range 76% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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Rank 76% connected

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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Rate 76% connected

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Shed 76% connected

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…

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Spill 76% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Manner of action 4

Broadcast 76% connected

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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Inseminate 76% connected

To sow; to impregnate.

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Scatter 76% connected

To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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Sow 76% connected

To sew. See Sew.

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Derivationally related 8

Seeder 74% connected

One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.

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Seeder 74% connected

One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.

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Seedy 74% connected

Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

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Seedy 74% connected

Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

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Sow 74% connected

To sew. See Sew.

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Sow 74% connected

To sew. See Sew.

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Sower 74% connected

One who, or that which, sows.

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Sower 74% connected

One who, or that which, sows.

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Component part 8

Endosperm 70% connected

The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.

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Episperm 70% connected

The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.

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Kernel 70% connected

The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a…

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Meat 70% connected

Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an…

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Pericarp 70% connected

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

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Sperm 70% connected

The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen.

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Spermatozoon 70% connected

Same as Spermatozoid.

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Testa 70% connected

The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.

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Synonym 6

Come 92% connected

of Come

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Ejaculate 92% connected

To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.

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Germ 92% connected

That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism app…

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Semen 92% connected

The seed of plants.

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Source 92% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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Sow 92% connected

To sew. See Sew.

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