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seeding

1 3.3

Removing the small hard parts from fruit and vegetables before cooking or eating

noun
/ˈsiːdɪŋ/

: despepitar

Seeding is simply dropping hints or making quick references to programs, products, or events at critical points when your audience is open to hearing them.

Examples

Before making the salad, she spent some time on the seeding of ripe tomatoes to enhance the flavors.
The chef's technique of seeding the peppers ensures that the dish is not too spicy for guests.
Surgery to remove the pleura; you may have a tumor that prevents this from happening. Get it cryo'd to ensure the surgeon has a better chance of removing the membrane. It is probably more useful if you have seeding.

Blog text (11)
For the salsa, he focused on seeding the jalapeños to allow for a milder taste.

Synonyms

podding

vsseeding

1 6.2

To remove peas or beans from their pods

covers removing seeds from fruits or other vegetables before cooking or serving

Surface Forms

seeding singular

seedings plural

Morphology

seeding = seed (semi-transparent) = seed + ing

The form is clear, but the culinary verb 'seed' is a specialized sense, so the noun is only partly predictable.

Etymology

Seeding comes from the word seed, which means the small part of a fruit that can 'grow' into a plant. To 'seed' fruit is to take out those parts, so seeding is the action of removing seeds before cooking or eating.