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# seed

«seed» in Mova's school dictionary: **the small hard part of a plant that can grow into a new…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, verb (seed, seeds, seeded, seeding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A seed is the small hard part of a plant that can grow into a new plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#m1)

2) Seeds are also the small pips inside fruit, like apple seeds or melon seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#m2)

3) To seed a field is to plant seeds in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#m3)

4) In sport a seed is a strong player placed so that top players do not meet early in a tournament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#m4)

5) «The seed of an idea» is where an idea starts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#m5)

6) In some dialect speech, seed is written for see or seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

Science: a seed needs water, warmth and air to germinate (start to grow); seeds are spread by wind, water and animals. Gardening: plant seeds in rows, a packet of seeds, seed trays. In maths they are things counted: seeds planted in rows, packets of seeds, seeds that grow and seeds that do not. Food: sunflower seeds, sesame seeds.

### examples

- She planted 5 rows of 8 seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x1)
- A packet has 30 seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x2)
- Only 24 of the seeds grew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x3)
- How many seeds are in 4 packets? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x4)
- A tiny acorn is the seed of a huge oak tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x5)
- Birds eat the seeds from the sunflower heads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x6)
- Spit out the watermelon seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x7)
- The wind carries dandelion seeds far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x8)
- She was the top seed in the tennis tournament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x9)
- You oughter seed dat toof, boss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/#x10)

### note

Countable: a seed, seeds. Rows × seeds per row, packets × seeds per packet; seeds that grew + seeds that did not = all. Trap: «seeds» and «plants» may not be the same number, since not every seed grows. Do not confuse «seed» with «cede» (give up) — they sound alike. Myth: swallowing a fruit seed does not make a tree grow in your tummy.

### In the corpora

- [Cassowaries swallow fruit whole and spread the seeds of over 200 kinds of plants in their droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/17/)
- [Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where dust and water collect, and a long taproot finds water deep down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/9/)
- [Agoutis open hard Brazil nut pods and bury spare seeds, and the forgotten seeds grow into new Brazil nut trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/15/)
- [Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/7/)
- [Mice prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods to cheese, so peanut butter works better in humane traps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.