Seed
[siːd] or [sid]
解释:
(noun.) a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa.
(noun.) a small hard fruit.
(verb.) remove the seeds from; 'seed grapes'.
(verb.) inoculate with microorganisms.
(verb.) sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; 'seed clouds'.
(verb.) distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds.
(verb.) go to seed; shed seeds; 'The dandelions went to seed'.
(verb.) bear seeds.
(verb.) help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money.
编辑:梅布尔--From WordNet
解释:
(pl. ) of Seed
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
(n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
(n.) The principle of production.
(n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
(n.) Race; generation; birth.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
(v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
校对:莱利亚
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Semen, sperm.[2]. (Bot.) Embryo (with its envelope or pericarp), matured ovule, kernel, grain.[3]. Original, first principle.[4]. Progeny, offspring, descendants, children.
录入:厄普顿
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Spring, origin, cause, germ, embryo, root
ANT:Issue, result, birth, product, development, offspring, fruit
欧内斯特整理
解释:
n. the thing sown: the male fecundating fluid semen sperm milt spat the substance produced by plants and animals from which new plants and animals are generated: first principle: original: descendants: children: race: red-seed: a small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.—v.i. to produce seed: to grow to maturity.—v.t. to sow: to plant: to graft.—ns. Seed′-bag a bag for seeds; Seed′-bed a piece of ground for receiving seed; Seed′-bird the water-wagtail; Seed′-bud the bud or germ of the seed; Seed′-cake a sweet cake containing aromatic seeds; Seed′-coat the exterior coat of a seed; Seed′-cod a basket for holding seed; Seed′-cor′al coral in small and irregular pieces; Seed′-corn corn to be used for sowing; Seed′-crush′er an instrument for crushing seeds to express the oil; Seed′-down the down on cotton &c.; Seed′-drill a machine for sowing seed in rows; Seed′-eat′er a granivorous bird.—adj. Seed′ed bearing seed full-grown: sown: (her.) having the stamens indicated.—ns. Seed′-embroi′dery embroidery in which seeds form parts of the design; Seed′er a seed-drill: an apparatus for removing seeds from fruit: a seed-fish; Seed′-field a field in which seed is raised; Seed′-finch a South American finch; Seed′-fish roe or spawn; Seed′-fowl a bird that feeds on grain.—adj. Seed′ful rich in promise.—ns. Seed′-gall a small gall; Seed′-grain corn for seed.—adv. Seed′ily.—ns. Seed′iness the state of being seedy: shabbiness: exhaustion; Seed′ing; Seed′ing-machine′ an agricultural machine for sowing; Seed′ing-plough a plough fitted with a hopper from which seed is automatically deposited; Seed′-lac (see Lac 2); Seed′-leaf a cotyledon; Seed′-leap a seed-basket.—adj. Seed′less having no seeds.—ns. Seed′ling a plant reared from the seed—also adj.; Seed′-lobe a cotyledon or seed-leaf; Seed′ness (Shak.) seedtime; Seed′-oil oil expressed from seeds.—ns.pl. Seed′-oy′sters very young oysters; Seed′-pearls very small or imperfect pearls strung together on horse-hair and attached to mother-of-pearl &c. for ornament—used also in the composition of electuaries &c.—ns. Seed′-plant′er a seeder for planting seed on hills; Seed′-plot a piece of nursery-ground a hot-bed; Seed′-sheet the sheet containing the seed of the sower; Seeds′man one who deals in seeds: a sower:—pl. Seeds′men; Seed′-sow′er a broadcast seeding-machine; Seed′-stalk the funiculus; Seed′-tick a young tick; Seed′time the time or season for sowing seed; Seed′-vess′el the pericarp which contains the seeds; Seed′-weev′il a small weevil which infests seeds; Seed′-wool cotton-wool from which the seeds have not been removed.—adj. Seed′y abounding with seed: run to seed: having the flavour of seeds: worn out: out of sorts looking or feeling unwell: shabby.—n. Seed′y-toe a diseased condition of a horse's foot.
校对:沃尔多
娱乐性解释：
To dream of seed, foretells increasing prosperity, though present indications appear unfavorable.
克里斯整理
例句:
- Is the estate going to seed? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Many cultivated plants display the utmost vigour, and yet rarely or never seed! 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- It was a machine mounted on two wheels, that had a seed box in the bottom of which was a series of holes opening into a corresponding number of metal tubes or funnels. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- I seed him a hauf an hour--nay, happen a quarter of an hour sin', just afore I set off. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- We see this acted on by farmers and gardeners in their frequent exchanges of seed, tubers, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- I seed a gal in one of 'em down Wappin' way as guv a song called, 'Tap me on the shoulder, Bill. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- He sowed different seeds from the same machine, and arranged that they might be covered at different depths. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The raw cotton was put in a hopper, where it was met by the teeth of the saws, and torn from the seeds. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- We cannot tell what seeds of the future may not be germinating already amidst our present confusions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- When I saw the great size of the seeds of that fine water-lily, the Nelumbium, and remembered Alph. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- But in some of these plants the seeds also differ in shape and sculpture. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The store of nutriment laid up within the seeds of many plants seems at first sight to have no sort of relation to other plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Habit is hereditary with plants, as in the period of flowering, in the time of sleep, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to germinate, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The reptile is on all fours with the seeding plant in its freedom from the necessity to pass any stage of its life cycle in water. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Washington and others in America had also commenced to invent and experiment with seeding machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It is true that, as in the case of the ploughs, attempts had been made through the centuries to invent and improve seeding implements. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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