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Sown; propagated by seed. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust. under Axillary.

A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one- seeded portions.

(Entada scandens) growing in tropical India and America. They contain hard round flattish seeds two inches in diameter, which are made into boxes.

surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.

family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.

The seed of plants.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.] Mortimer. But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn.

Natural dispersion of seeds. Martyn.

Thickly covered or sown, as with seeds. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Seed-bearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.

Forming or producing seed, or the male generative product of animals or of plants.

Propagation from seed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.

A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste.

wo annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum (S. Indicum, and S. orientale), from the seeds of which an oil is expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants, sometimes used as food. See Benne. Open Sesame, the magical command which opened the door of the robber's den in the Arabian Nights' tale…

Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.

Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.

w having a shadow of good things to come. Heb. x. 1. [Types] and shadows of that destined seed. Milton.