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white-seeded

white-seeded

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A plant variety that has white seeds, like some beans or grains
  • adjective
: de semillas blancas
  • During the harvest, we noticed that the white-seeded corn was particularly popular among customers.

Examples

  • She prefers white-seeded peppers because they are known for their mild flavor.

  • The gardener planted white-seeded pumpkins to create a contrast with the darker varieties.

  • White-seeded beans contain low levels of tannin. "To assure variability of seed tannin concentration, we included two white beans in the study," he says.

    Academic text (1999)

Surface Forms

white-seeded positive

Morphology

white-seeded = white + seeded (transparent) = white + seed + ed

The word is a straightforward compound of 'white' + 'seeded' (itself 'seed' + '-ed'), so the meaning 'having white seeds' is directly inferable.

Etymology

White-seeded is made from white + seed + -ed, so it literally means 'having white seeds'. Think of adjectives like blue-eyed or red-headed, where -ed means 'having something'; that is why white-seeded describes a plant whose seeds are white.