go to seed
下种,播种,下种子,撒种
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plural seeds, seed.
- : the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- : any propagative part of a plant, including tubers, bulbs, etc., especially as preserved for growing a new crop.
- : such parts collectively.
- : any similar small part or fruit.
- : Dialect. pit.
- : the germ or propagative source of anything: the seeds of discord.
- : offspring; progeny.
- : birth: not of mortal seed.
- : sperm; semen.
- : the ovum or ova of certain animals, as the lobster and the silkworm moth.
- : seed oyster.
- : a small air bubble in a glass piece, caused by defective firing.
- : Crystallography, Chemistry. a small crystal added to a solution to promote crystallization.
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Examples
Calotropis pod fibers creating an air balloon to carry seeds away from the plant.
Undermyfork, a diabetes tracking app designed to help people with the disease improve “time-in-range” and better manage their condition, has raised $400,000 in seed funding.
For decades, astronomers have theorized microbes could drift through the vastness of space like pollen in the wind, planting the seeds of life across the cosmos.
LeBron James’s points and assists per game, 3-point attempts, effective field-goal percentage and usage rate on his five top-seeded playoff teamsRegular season only.
Knocked-out fifth seed Pittsburgh would have loved to see Lafrenière playing alongside Sidney Crosby next year.
Famously, Ted Turner in 1997 founded the United Nations Foundation with a generous $1 billion in seed money.
He said he hoped their “shed blood [would] act as a seed of hope in order to build authentic brotherhood among peoples.”
When you were setting out to work on The Giver, what planted the seed for this dark, utopian society?
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions—on a sesame seed bun.
In 1954, no one had met anyone like her, or the novel that contained her: ‘The Bad Seed.’
The seed of discontent was again germinating under the duplicity of the Spanish lay and clerical authorities.
The color (p. 027) of the seed also varies according to the varieties of the plant.
The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.
When the man turned bad on his hands, Jahweh was angry, and cursed him and his seed for thousands of years.