seed plants
61Seed propagation mat — An electric seed propagation mat is a heated rubber mat covered by a metal cage which is used in gardening. The mats are made so that planters containing seedlings can be placed on top of the metal cage without the risk of starting a fire. In… …
62seed beetle — noun a small beetle that infests the seeds of legumes • Syn: ↑seed weevil • Hypernyms: ↑weevil • Hyponyms: ↑pea weevil, ↑Bruchus pisorum, ↑bean weevil, ↑Acanthoscelides obtect …
63seed weevil — noun a small beetle that infests the seeds of legumes • Syn: ↑seed beetle • Hypernyms: ↑weevil • Hyponyms: ↑pea weevil, ↑Bruchus pisorum, ↑bean weevil, ↑Acanthoscelides obtect …
64seed potato — noun Date: 1742 a potato tuber grown for its buds which are used to start new plants; also a section of such a tuber with one or more buds …
65seed dispersal — movement of seeds away from parent plants …
66seed — Used literally of plants or corn (Deut. 11:10), as in Jesus parables (Mark 4:26–9; 30–2), but also used of human descendants (Mark 12:19, AV, RV; modern versions interpret as ‘children’ or ‘heir’), especially of Abraham (Rom. 4:13, AV, RV; modern …
67seed plot — n. piece of land where seeds are sowed to grow plants for transplanting; nursery …
68seed-bed — place from growing young plants, plant nursery, place to tend to plant sprouts …
69seed — n 1.Bot. ovule, Bot. embryo, Embryol. germ, Bot. ovum; tuber, bulb, Bot. corm. 2. sperm, spermatic fluid, semen, spermatozoa, milt; egg, gamete, germ cell; zygote, fertilized egg, spawn, roe. 3. germ, source, root, origin, cause, provocation;… …
70seed-corn maggot — noun : a small yellowish grub with a pointed head that is the larva of a grayish brown two winged fly (Hylemya platura), is native to Europe but now widely distributed in No. America, and is typically a destructive borer in seeds and seedlings… …
