Definition of Seed

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Definition of Seed

Seed

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A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.

Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.

The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.

That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

The principle of production.

Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

Race; generation; birth.

To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

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Seed Quotations

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Confucius

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Robert H. Schuller

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu

Seed Translations

seed in Afrikaans is saad
seed in Dutch is zaad
seed in Italian is germe, seme, seme
seed in Latin is semen-inis
seed in Portuguese is semente
seed in Spanish is semen

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