seed

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noun

1 from which a plant grows

ADJECTIVE

▪ grass, mustard, poppy, sesame, etc.

▪ bird (usually birdseed)

▪ bad (AmE, figurative)

▪

the transformation of Tracy from good girl to bad seed

… OF SEEDS

▪ packet

VERB + SEED

▪ plant, sow

▪ produce, set

▪

This tree produces very hard seeds.

▪

The plant will set seed in June.

▪ grow sth from, raise sth from

▪

She grew all the plants from seed.

▪ disperse, spread

▪

Most seeds are spread by the wind.

▪ go to, run to

▪

Cutting weeds before they go to seed will greatly reduce future weed problems.

▪ contain

▪

Each fruit usually contains a single seed.

▪

He argued that capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction. (figurative)

▪ remove

▪

Peel the peppers and remove the seeds.

SEED + VERB

▪ germinate, grow, sprout

SEED + NOUN

▪ head, pod

▪ packet, tray

▪ bank, catalogue, merchant (esp. BrE)

▪ corn, potato

▪ money

PHRASES

▪ a variety of seeds

▪

The catalogue has hundreds of different varieties of seeds.

2 player in a sports competition

ADJECTIVE

▪ first, second, etc.

▪ number-one, number-two, etc.

▪ top

▪

She was the top seed at the US Open this year.

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verb

Seed is used with these nouns as the object: ↑cloud