verb
- Go to seed; shed seeds.
- usage: "The dandelions went to seed"
- synonyms: seed
- Help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money.
- synonyms: seed
- Bear seeds.
- synonyms: seed
- Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth.
- usage: "She sowed sunflower seeds"
- Distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds.
- synonyms: seed
- Sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain.
- usage: "seed clouds"
- synonyms: seed
- Inoculate with microorganisms.
- synonyms: seed
- Remove the seeds from.
- usage: "seed grapes"
- synonyms: seed
adjective
- Of the more skilled contestants. ( selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds)
- Having the seeds extracted.
- usage: "seeded raisins"
- Having seeds as specified.
- usage: "many-seeded"; "black-seeded"
- Having or supplied with seeds.
- usage: "a seeded breadfruit"; "seeded rolls"
- Sprinkled with seed.
- usage: "a seeded lawn"
- synonyms: sown
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