Seedless: alternatives and connections

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury pa…

Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of…

Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water…

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicati…

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of…

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

A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, op…

An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.

The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called als…

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…