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a small part of a plant or fruit from which another plant can grow; a cause or origin (of something); semen

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1) (a kind of tree with) a round, yellow or orange fruit with soft flesh and a large seed (apricot)

2) a cereal plant and its seed (called grain) used for food and for making beer and whiskey (barley)

3) (any of several plants with) a seed in a long container (pod) (all used as vegetables) (bean)

4) (a seed of) a tropical tree from which cocoa and chocolate are made (cacao)

5) (a kind of tree) with a soft, small, round fruit that is red, yellow or black when ripe and with a hard seed in the middle (cherry)

6) a large hard seed (of the coconut-palm) filled with milky juice and with a solid white lining (coconut)

7) to make (soil) fertile; to make (an egg, seed etc) able to produce a new animal, plant (fertilize)

8) a plant with fibre in its stem (used to make linen) and oil in its seed (used to make linseed oil) (flax)

9) the small, hard seed of food plants such as wheat and rice (grain)

10) (the powder from crushing) a sweet-smelling seed of an East Indian tree, used as a flavouring (nutmeg)

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