1. Noun
A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
2. Noun
Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.
3. Noun
A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
4. Noun
Seminal state.
5. Noun
Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
6. Noun
A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
7. Adjective
Belonging to seed; seminal.
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