to seed
- verb
- /siːd/
- Specialized
- To prepare the dish, you need to seed the tomatoes and chop them into small pieces.
The Southwest American Indians who love Chili Peppers always peel and D seed their chilies before they either eat them or grind them into chili powder.
- The Southwest American Indians who love Chili Peppers always peel and D seed their chilies before they either eat them or grind them into chili powder.
- If it could be a mechanism, a mechanical way of de seeding the cotton in ever increasing ways, it would.
Examples
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Dried tomatoes should be cored and halved, although opinions differ on the need to seed tomatoes when drying.
Blog text (12) -
I usually seed the cucumbers before adding them to the sandwich for extra crunch.
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You want to release the seeds from the seed pods.
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This is literally just in simple terms, squeezing the seeds so that the oil comes out.
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Cassidy reached in the back seat for a towel, seeded the fruit, and handed half toward Levy.
Fiction book (1999) -
In this case, small sugar pumpkins are sliced in half, de-seeded, and de-stringed, and placed to roast.
Blog text (4) -
2 limes, rinsed, quartered, and seeded; 1/4 cup sugar; 3 cups water
Blog text (16) -
Campari or small plum tomatoes, seeded and diced.
Blog text (27) -
After seeding the bell peppers, I mixed them with other vegetables for the salad.
Synonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
Small seeds from sunflowers eaten as a snack, used in cooking or pressed for oil
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A very small imperfect round bead made by an oyster and used in jewelry
- Specialized
A small bush that grows in salt marshes and has fruit with white fluffy tufts
- Specialized
A seed from Mexican shrubs that moves because a baby moth inside wiggles
- Indian
A seed from the neem tree used to make natural insect spray, plant food, and medicine
- UK
Hard shiny grey seed from a tropical tree that people use to make jewelry and decorations
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A very small water animal like a shrimp with its whole body inside a two-part shell
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Small dark pieces made by crushing and washing stick resin, used to make shellac
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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
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb seed meaning 'remove seeds' comes from the noun seed, so to seed fruit is to take out the seeds before eating or cooking.