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Plural of seed

regular plural

The plural of seed is seeds.

Forms of seed

Singularseed /siːd/
Pluralseeds /siːdz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Seeds in a sentence

  • A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
  • A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
  • I started some tomato seeds last spring, but they didn't take.From the entry take
  • This plant's light and fluffy seeds may be borne by the wind to remote islands.From the entry bear
  • Chickpea is valued for its nutritive seeds with high protein content.From the entry chickpea

Meaning of seed

  1. noun Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
  2. noun A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
  3. noun Any small seed-like fruit.

Full definition of seed

Questions about the plural of seed

What is the plural of seed?
The plural of seed is seeds.
Is seed countable?
Seed is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seed (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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