Seed Synonyms and Antonyms

sēd
A fertilized plant ovule capable of germinating
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. kernel
  2. pip
  3. pit
A propagative part of a plant
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. spore
  2. tuber
A group consisting of those descended directly from the same parents or ancestors
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. brood
  2. get
  3. issue
  4. offspring
  5. posterity
  6. progeny
Antonyms:
  1. ancestor
  2. parent
To put (seeds) into the ground for growth
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sow
  2. plant
  3. scatter
  4. germinate
  5. strew
  6. broadcast
One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ancestry
  2. birth
  3. blood
  4. bloodline
  5. descent
  6. extraction
  7. family
  8. genealogy
  9. line
  10. lineage
  11. origin
  12. parentage
  13. pedigree
  14. stock
The male fluid of fertilization
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. semen
  2. seminal-fluid
  3. sperm
  4. ejaculate
  5. come
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. granivorous
  2. seminal
  3. seminivorous
  4. viviparous

Words Related to Seed

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. kin
  2. start
  3. cloud-seeding
  4. germination ovule
  5. precede
  6. wheat
  7. seedling
  8. crop
  9. caryopsis
  10. plantlets
  11. fruit
  12. maize
  13. dry-stored
  14. nyjer
  15. farm-saved
  16. leguminous
  17. beet
  18. tomato

Seed Sentence Examples

  • For the sowing of seed see Sowing.

  • Farmers need to have supplies of seed, fertilizer, tractors, and fuel.

  • A seed of a thought that emerged yesterday returned stronger.

  • But when Greek deities were introduced into Rome on the advice of the Sibylline books (in 495 B.C., on the occasion of a severe drought), Demeter, the Greek goddess of seed and harvest, whose worship was already common in Sicily and Lower Italy, usurped the place of Ceres in Rome, or rather, to Ceres were added the religious rites which the Greeks paid to Demeter, and the mythological incidents which originated with her.

  • Thus in the end of the 17th century the seed was sown which has at intervals brought forth recurrent crops of evolutional hypotheses, based, more or less completely, on general reasonings.

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