seed

A player ranked among the best in a tournament who is placed to avoid other top players early

A person or team expected to lose a competition

A player or team not given a ranking in a tournament

To make someone begin to feel unsure about something

Use saved resources now in a way that harms future success

Small seeds from sunflowers eaten as a snack, used in cooking or pressed for oil

Money given at the start to help a new business get started

Small oval seeds from a plant used in cooking and to make oil

Small grey seeds from a garden flower used in baking and cooking

A small part inside a pumpkin that you can eat as a snack

A small round seed from a plant used whole or ground to make a spicy sauce

Small aromatic seeds used to add flavor to food and drinks

A small brown seed used to give a warm, slightly spicy flavor to bread and food

Dried seeds of the coriander plant used as a spice

A small brown seed that adds a warm, slightly bitter taste to food

A very small idea or amount that can grow into something much larger

An edible seed from the cannabis plant used as food or in cooking

A book or list that shows seeds for sale with descriptions and prices

Seeds or tubers that farmers keep to plant next year's crops

Small seeds from the celery plant used to add flavor to food

A small seed with a sweet licorice taste that people use to flavor food and drinks

A sweet cake with seeds like caraway and a little lemon

A machine that removes dirt and broken seeds before storage

Kernels of corn kept for planting the next crop

A very small imperfect round bead made by an oyster and used in jewelry

A plant that makes seeds to grow new plants

Money or goods kept for use later to help future growth

Kernels of crops like corn that farmers keep to plant next season

Bread made with caraway seeds that give it a warm, strong flavor

A mix of seeds fed to small pet birds like canaries and finches

A small bush that grows in salt marshes and has fruit with white fluffy tufts

A small brown seed from the dill plant used to add flavor to food

A grass with very small seeds that fall off easily

A small part of a plant that you can eat and use in cooking

Small seeds with a strong smell used to add flavor to curry and other dishes

A tiny spore from a fern, once thought to make you invisible

A seed from Mexican shrubs that moves because a baby moth inside wiggles

A seed from the neem tree used to make natural insect spray, plant food, and medicine

Hard shiny grey seed from a tropical tree that people use to make jewelry and decorations

A small hard seed from the safflower plant used for bird food and to make oil

A seed that contains a lot of oil used to make cooking oil and other oils

A small insect that eats the seeds of plants like beans or peas

An outer covering of a seed that protects the young plant inside

A small oyster that people move to an oyster bed to grow

A person or shop that sells seeds for planting

A very small water animal like a shrimp with its whole body inside a two-part shell

Plants that looked like ferns but made seeds long ago

Small dark pieces made by crushing and washing stick resin, used to make shellac

First leaf or pair of leaves inside a seed that feed the young plant

A container used to grow edible shoots from seeds like bean sprouts

A shallow container for planting seeds and growing young plants

The part of a plant that holds the small parts that grow into new plants after flowering

A small beetle that lays eggs in seeds of plants like beans and whose young eat the seeds

A pale yellow liquid used for cooking and salads that comes from sunflower seeds

Eggs of the insect that makes silk, used to start silk farming