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seed down
c. attributive. Designating parts of seeds, and parts of plants that bear or contain seed, as seed capsule, seed down, seed stem, etc.Recorded earliest in seed case n. at Compounds 3.See also seed box n. 1, seed crown n. 2, etc.
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1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. L ii Clymenum..hath lytle sede cases about the stalke turnynge one into another.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vii. 183 The Sap being thus prepared in the inner Coat, as a Liquor now apt to be the Substratum of the future Seed-Embrio, by fresh supplies, is thence discharg'd.
1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. ii. 32 A Turnep runs up a Seed-stalk sometimes near seven Feet high.
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 201 Dill—if now advanced in seed-umbels, may be pulled up for use.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 80 Seed-cover (calyculus) the real cover of the seed.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xiv. 355 In summer, it chiefly subsists on the tops and seed-stems of thistles.
1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 87 The less essential parts of a seed are, the pellicle, the tunic, the seed-down [etc.].
1839 J. Buel Farmer's Compan. xxii. 226 It may be known by its..seed-glumes resembling a cock's-foot.
1844 Zoologist 2 451 The seed-branches of field grasses.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xviii. 245 So they gathered cones together, Gathered seed-cones of the pine-tree.
1915 Rep. Kansas State Board Agric. for Quarter ending March, 1915 144 The idea with any grain sorghum is to get as many seed branches as possible on the center stem.
1977 Arnoldia 37 17 Micro-organisms decompose the seed covering.
1991 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 23 Nov. c6 Once the petals drop, triangular seed capsules form and..remain on the tree all winter.
2014 P. Munts & S. Mulvihill Northwest Gardener's Handbk. 137/3 Blue grama grass..has horizontal purple inflorescences on 6- to 8-inch stems during summer and seed spikes that attract birds.
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to seed down
transitive. To sow (land) with grass or clover seeds, in between periods of crop-growing; (also) to intersperse grass or clover seeds amongst (a crop of oats, wheat, etc.). With †for, to, with. Also figurative. Also occasionally intransitive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > sow interspersedly or at intervals
intersow1725
to seed down1794
1794 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Cambr. 167 When the land tires of this round, and becomes foul of weeds, it is seeded down with red clover, and rye grass.
1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 505 It is the practice of one farmer..to seed down without a crop: his custom is to fallow.
1864 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 25 ii. 527 I seed down the oat-crop for clover.
1873 W. Carleton Farm Ballads 30 And I'll plough her grave with hate, and seed it down to scorn!
1910 Penny Illustr. Paper 2 Apr. 436/1 The land to be seeded down to grass must be poor, hungry soil, or the seed will not germinate freely.
1960 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 6 Oct. 26/7 The corn fields are seeded down with a grass legume mixture of 20 per cent red clover, 10 percent ladino clover, 35 per cent alfalfa, and 35 per cent timothy.
2010 A. L. Hansen Org. Farming Man. ix. 240/1 You will in most cases have to seed down the area.
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