Fruit vs. Seed

Fruitnoun

(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

Fruitnoun

Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.

Fruitnoun

An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

Fruitnoun

Offspring from a sexual union.

Fruitnoun

A homosexual or effeminate man.

Fruitnoun

modifier}} Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; of living things producing or consuming fruit.

Fruitverb

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Fruitnoun

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; - commonly used in the plural.

Fruitnoun

The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

Fruitnoun

The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

Fruitnoun

The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.

Fruitnoun

The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.

Fruitnoun

That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.

Fruitverb

To bear fruit.

Fruitnoun

the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

Fruitnoun

the consequence of some effort or action;

Fruitnoun

an amount of a product

Fruitverb

cause to bear fruit

Fruitverb

bear fruit;

Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds.

Seednoun

(countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.

Seednoun

A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

Seednoun

(uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.

Seednoun

(uncountable) Semen.

Seednoun

A precursor.

Seednoun

(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

Seednoun

The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)

Seednoun

The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)

Seednoun

Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)

Seednoun

Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)

Seednoun

Offspring, descendants, progeny.

Seednoun

Race; generation; birth.

Seednoun

A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

Seedverb

(transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.

Seedverb

(transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

Seedverb

(transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

Seedverb

To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

Seedverb

To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).

Seedverb

(intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.

Seedverb

(intransitive) To produce seed.

Seedverb

(intransitive) To grow to maturity.

Seedverb

To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

Seedverb

(dialectal) see

Seednoun

A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.

Seednoun

The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; - not used in the plural.

Seednoun

That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

Seednoun

The principle of production.

Seednoun

Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

Seednoun

Race; generation; birth.

Seedverb

To sow seed.

Seedverb

To shed the seed.

Seedverb

To grow to maturity, and to produce seed.

Seedverb

To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

Seedverb

To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

Seednoun

a small hard fruit

Seednoun

a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

Seednoun

one of the outstanding players in a tournament

Seednoun

anything that provides inspiration for later work

Seednoun

the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

Seedverb

go to seed; shed seeds;

Seedverb

help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

Seedverb

bear seeds

Seedverb

place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;

Seedverb

distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds

Seedverb

sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain;

Seedverb

inoculate with microorganisms

Seedverb

remove the seeds from;

Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering. The formation of the seed is part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiosperm plants.