Definition

/siːd/

noun

A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
Any small seed-like fruit.
“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.
“The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.”
A fragment of coral.

verb

To plant or sow an area with seeds.
“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.
“A venture capitalist seeds young companies.”
To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).