aniseed | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise, anise seed |
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axseed | (noun) European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods | Synonyms: Coronilla varia, crown vetch |
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benniseed | (noun) small oval seeds of the sesame plant | Synonyms: sesame seed |
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birdseed | (noun) food given to birds; usually mixed seeds | Synonyms: bird feed, bird food |
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blackseed | (noun) grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus | Synonyms: carpet grass, smut grass, Sporobolus poiretii |
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cottonseed | (noun) seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil | - |
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dropseed | (noun) a grass of the genus Sporobolus | Synonyms: drop-seed |
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flaxseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: linseed |
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hayseed | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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heartseed | (noun) herbaceous vine of tropical America and Africa | Synonyms: Cardiospermum grandiflorum |
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linseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: flaxseed |
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moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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oilseed | (noun) any of several seeds that yield oil | Synonyms: oil-rich seed |
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pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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rapeseed | (noun) seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil | - |
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seed | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, ejaculate, semen, seminal fluid |
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(noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, source |
(noun) one of the outstanding players in a tournament | Synonyms: seeded player |
(noun) a small hard fruit | - |
(noun) a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa | - |
tickseed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickweed |
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wormseed | (noun) rank-smelling tropical American pigweed | Synonyms: American wormseed, Chenopodium ambrosioides, Mexican tea, Spanish tea |
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