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A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

Any small seed-like fruit.

Example: If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.

Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

(collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.

Example: The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

To plant or sow an area with seeds.

Example: I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.

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

To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

Example: A venture capitalist seeds young companies.

To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

(stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.

To form a mental picture of.

(social) To meet, to visit.

To be the setting or time of.

Example: 1999 saw the release of many great films.