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| Main Entry: | seed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, source |
| Synonyms: | berry, bud, cell, conceit, concept, conception, core, ear, egg, embryo, germ, grain, image, impression, inkling, kernel, notion, nucleus, nut, ovum, particle, spark, start, suspicion, corn, ovule, rudiment, semen, sperm, spore |
| Notes: | cede means to give over, surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another - while a seed is a small hard fruit or a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat a spore is a lone reproductive cell capable of producing a plant without combining with another cell; a seed develops from sexual recombination of genes from within one plant or two separate plants |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, ending, result |
| Main Entry: | seed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children |
| Synonyms: | brood, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, race, spawn, descendants, heirs, progeniture, scions, successors |
| Antonyms: | ancestor, parent |
| Main Entry: | berry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small fruit |
| Synonyms: | bean, grain, hip, kernel, seed, drupe, drupelet, haw, pome |
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cluster of children |
| Synonyms: | breed, clutch, family, flock, hatch, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, young, begats, chicks, descendants, infants, progeniture, scions |
| Antonyms: | child |
| Main Entry: | crumb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny bit, morsel |
| Synonyms: | atom, dab, dash, dram, drop, grain, iota, jot, mite, ounce, particle, pinch, scrap, seed, shred, sliver, smidgen, snippet, soupçon, speck |
| Main Entry: | descendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in line of ancestry |
| Synonyms: | brood, child, get*, heir, issue, kin, offshoot, offspring, posterity, product, progeny, scion, seed, spin-off*, children, chip off old block, progeniture |
| Antonyms: | predecessor, ascendant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | farm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce crops, raise animals |
| Synonyms: | crop, cultivate, direct, dress, garden, graze, grow, harvest, husband, landscape, operate, pasture, plant, plow, ranch, reap, run, seed, sow, subdue, superintend, tend, till, work, bring under cultivation, harrow, homestead, look after, till the soil |
| Main Entry: | nucleus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | core; basis for something's |
| Synonyms: | center, crux, embryo, focus, foundation, germ, heart, hub, kernel, matter, nub, pivot, premise, principle, seed, spark, beginning bud |
| Antonyms: | exterior, outside, exteriority |
| Main Entry: | offspring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child, children |
| Synonyms: | baby, brood, cub, descendant, family, generation, heir, heredity, issue, kid*, lineage, offshoot, posterity, produce, progeny, scion, seed, spawn, succession, successor, young, bambino, chip off old block, progeniture, pup |
| Antonyms: | parent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | particle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atom, piece |
| Synonyms: | bit, crumb, dot, dribble, drop, fleck, fragment, grain, hoot*, iota, jot, mite, modicum, molecule, morsel, mote, ounce, ray, scrap, scruple, seed, shred, smidgen, speck, spot, stitch, whit, minim, smithereen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | posterity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | future generations |
| Synonyms: | breed, brood, family, issue, lineage, offspring, progeny, seed, stock, unborn, children, descendants, heirs, next generation, progeniture, scions, succeeding generations, successors |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | powder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fine, loose grains made by crushing a solid |
| Synonyms: | crumb, dust, film, grain, grit, meal, particle, pounce, seed, pulverulence, talc |
| Antonyms: | solid |
| Main Entry: | progeny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offspring |
| Synonyms: | breed, family, get*, issue, lineage, posterity, race, seed, stock, young, begats, children, descendants, kids, progeniture, scions |
| Antonyms: | parent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | root |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base, core |
| Synonyms: | basis, bedrock, bottom, cause, center, crux, derivation, essence, footing, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, fundamental, germ, ground, groundwork, heart, inception, infrastructure, marrow, motive, nub, nucleus, occasion, origin, pith, provenance, quick, quintessence, reason, rock bottom*, seat, seed, soul, source, stem, stuff, substance, tuber, underpinning, well, beginnings, essentiality, mainspring, provenience, radicle, radix, rhizome, starting point, substratum |
| Antonyms: | derivation, derivative, sprout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offshoot, descendant |
| Synonyms: | branch, brood, child, graft, heir, issue, junior, offspring, progeny, seed, shoot, slip, sprout, successor, twig, begotten, chip off old block, heiress |
| Antonyms: | cause, root, source |
| Main Entry: | sow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plant |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, disseminate, drill, fling, grow, implant, inseminate, lodge, pitch, propagate, raise, scatter, seed, strew, toss, disject, put in |
| Antonyms: | dig, harvest, reap |
| Main Entry: | tribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethnic group; family |
| Synonyms: | association, blood, caste, clan, class, division, dynasty, horde, house, ilk, kin, kind, kindred, lineage, people, race, seed, society, sort, stock, type |
| Main Entry: | bean |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small hard pellet |
| Synonyms: | berry, grain, kernel, nugget, seed |
| Main Entry: | cultivate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop land for growing |
| Synonyms: | breed, crop, dress, farm, fertilize, garden, harvest, labor, manage, mature, plant, plow, prepare, propagate, raise, ripen, seed, tend, till, work |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | font |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | source |
| Synonyms: | fountain, genesis, origin, root, seed, wellspring, fount |
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