seed

seed的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [si:d]
KK音标发音： [sid]

seed的词性：
n.（名词）

1. A ripened plant ovule containing an embryo.
种子：包含有胚的成熟的植物胚珠

2. A propagative part of a plant, as a tuber or spore.
芽孢：植物的繁殖部分，如块茎或孢子

3. Seeds considered as a group.
种子的总称

4. The seed-bearing stage of a plant.
结籽期：植物结籽的阶段

5. Something that resembles a seed, as a tiny bubble in a piece of glass or a small crystal added to a solution to start crystallization.
晶粒，小泡：象种子的东西，例如玻璃里的小泡或加在溶液中使开始结晶的小晶粒

6. A source or beginning; a germ.
萌芽，开端；起因

7. Offspring; progeny.
后代；子孙

8. Family stock; ancestry.
家系；祖先

9. Sperm; semen.
精子；精液

10. A seed oyster or oysters; spat.
牡蛎苗；牡蛎卵

11. Sports A player who has been seeded for a tournament, often at a given rank:
【体育运动】 种子选手：成为某一体育比赛的种子选手的运动员，通常有一定级别：

a top seed.
头号种子选手

seed的词性：
v.（动词）

seed的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）

12. To plant seeds in (land, for example); sow.
播种：播种于（如土地）中；播种

13. To plant in soil.
种植：栽种于土地中

14. To remove the seeds from (fruit).
去子：去（水果的）核

15. Meteorology To sprinkle (a cloud) with particles, as of silver iodide, in order to disperse it or produce rain.
【气象学】 人工降雨：用颗粒如碘化银晶体撒在云里，从而驱散云或人工降雨

16. Sports
【体育运动】

17. To arrange (the drawing for positions in a tournament) so that the more skilled contestants meet in the later rounds.
安排：安排（比赛项目中的抽签）从而使较优秀的队员或参赛者在较后的几轮比赛中相遇

18. To rank (a contestant) in this way.
安排种子选手的比赛组别：以这种方式安排（某个竞争者）的等级

19. To help (a business, for example) in its early development.
催化：在最初的发展阶段中帮助（例如一个企业）

seed的词性：
v.intr.（不及物动词）

20. To sow seed.
播种

21. To go to seed.
结籽

seed的词性：
adj.（形容词）

22. Set aside for planting a new crop:
作种用的：为了种植新作物留作种用的：

seed corn; seed wheat.
种用玉米；麦种

23. Intended to help in early stages:
加以协助的：倾向于在早期阶段有所帮助的：

provided seed capital for a fledgling business.
为一个刚起步的商业机构提供基础资金

24. To pass into the seed-bearing stage.
结籽：进入结籽阶段

25. To become weak or devitalized; deteriorate:
衰老：变得虚弱或无力；退化：

The old neighborhood has gone to seed.
老邻居们都去了活力

seed的词源：

26. Middle English
中古英语

27. from Old English s^?d, s?d * see s?-
源自 古英语 s^?d, s?d *参见 s?-