| 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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| reseed | (verb) maintain by seeding without human intervention | - |
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| (verb) seed again or anew | - |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) inoculate with microorganisms | - |
| (verb) remove the seeds from | - |
| (verb) sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain | - |
| (verb) distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds | - |
| (verb) go to seed; shed seeds | - |
| (verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth | Synonyms: sow |
| (verb) bear seeds | - |
| (verb) help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money | - |
| seedbed | (noun) a bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting | - |
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| seedcake | (noun) a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon | Synonyms: seed cake |
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| seedcase | (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: cod, pod |
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| seeded | (adjective) (of the more skilled contestants) selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds | - |
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| (adjective) sprinkled with seed | Synonyms: sown |
| (adjective) having or supplied with seeds | - |
| (adjective) having seeds as specified | - |
| (adjective) having the seeds extracted | - |
| seeder | (noun) a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground | - |
| (noun) a person who seeds clouds | Synonyms: cloud seeder |
| seediness | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: manginess, shabbiness, sleaziness |
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| seedless | (adjective) lacking seeds | - |
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| seedling | (noun) young plant or tree grown from a seed | - |
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| seedman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedsman |
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| seedpod | (noun) a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant | Synonyms: pod |
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| seedsman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedman |
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| seedtime | (noun) the time during which seeds should be planted | - |
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| (noun) any time of new development | - |
| seedy | (adjective) full of seeds | - |
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| (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, sleazy, sordid, squalid |
| (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| (adjective) shabby and untidy | Synonyms: scruffy |
| 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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| unseeded | (adjective) not seeded; used of players of lesser skill | - |
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| (adjective) (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it | Synonyms: unsown |
| wormseed | (noun) rank-smelling tropical American pigweed | Synonyms: American wormseed, Chenopodium ambrosioides, Mexican tea, Spanish tea |
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