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Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed. Gray.

A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.

fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.

enus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.

To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon.

ropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is Erythrina Corallodendron. -- Coral wood, a hard, red cabinet wood. McElrath.

The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ. [Obs.]

, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron.

composite plants, having the achenes two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.

An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus. Martyn.

The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut.

A product from cottonseed, used as lard.

ance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.

events according to natural laws. By course of nature and of law. Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

edience, repentance, faith, etc. I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Gen. xvii. 7.