Usually means: Embryo, storage tissue, protective coat.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. seed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. seed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. seed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. seed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. seed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Seed, see'd, seed: Wordnik
  7. seed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Seed (pip), Seed: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Seed, seed: Wiktionary
  10. seed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. seed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. seed: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. seed: Dictionary.com
  14. seed (n.), seed (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. seed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SEED (cipher), SEED (organization), SEED, Seed (Afro Celt Sound System album), Seed (BitTorrent), Seed (Mami Kawada album), Seed (TV series), Seed (The Walking Dead), Seed (disambiguation), Seed (magazine), Seed (programming), Seed (sports), Seed (upcoming video game), Seed, The Seed (Stargate Atlantis), The Seed (novel), The Seed (organisation), The Seed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Seed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. seed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. seed: Rhymezone
  20. seed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. seed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SEED: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. seed: Free Dictionary
  24. seed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. seed: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. seed: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  2. SEED (cipher), seed: Legal dictionary
  3. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. seed: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. seed: Hacking Lexicon
  3. SEED (cipher), Seed (BitTorrent), Seed (disambiguation), seed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SEED (cipher), Seed (disambiguation), seed: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. SEED: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. seed: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  2. Seed: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Statistics (in particular, re-randomisation statistics) (No longer online)
  5. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  6. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  7. seed: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seed: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Seed: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Seed: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
noun:  (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
noun:  (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
noun:  (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
noun:  (countable) A fragment of coral.
noun:  (uncountable) Semen.
noun:  (countable, figurative) A precursor.
noun:  (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
noun:  (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
noun:  The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
noun:  (cryptography) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system. (seed number)
noun:  (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
noun:  (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
noun:  Race; generation; birth.
noun:  (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
noun:  A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
verb:  (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
verb:  (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
verb:  (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
verb:  (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
verb:  (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
verb:  (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
verb:  (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce seed.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
verb:  (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
noun:  A surname.

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