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Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant (Erysinum cheiranthoides) having small lanceolate leaves.

A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre).

A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

rly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

f reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. [Obs.] The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

i*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

ne and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

The herb dill, or dillseed.

e leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.