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OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 120 Omne genus seminarium, æghwilc sædcyn.

lOE Laws: Rectitudines (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 450 Sædere gebyreð, þæt he hæbbe ælces sædcynnes ænne leap fulne.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. To Rdr. sig. 5 Neither were there any other seed-gardens from whence Christian Religion, and good learning were propagated over this isle.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 33 A Red-Headed Monkey lost from a Seed-Shop in the Strand.

1786 C. Varlo Essence Agric. xxvi. 127 (heading) On the management of rye, both for winter-feeding, and a seed-crop.

1799 M. Pilkington Biogr. for Boys 130 Going by accident into the gardener's seed-house, he saw the man busy in laying poison for the rats.

1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 418 Two cast-iron wheels, for the purpose of impressing two small seed gutters or drills on the furrow slices turned over by the common plough.

1875 Sci. Amer. 23 Jan. 57/2 Air and water are the only requisites for seed germination.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxvi. 164 Yet in the dark seed-growths of consciousness a new wish was forming itself.

1898 Daily News 9 June 7/5 To-day's seed market..was most thinly attended.

1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 59 Rose-leaves that whirl in colour round a core Of seed-specks kindled lately.

1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. x. 219 They will produce plants each of which will have the same range of seed-weight as did its parent.

1960 Times 28 Nov. 16/5 The recommended seed-rate [for maize] is 30 to 35 lb. an acre.

1981 Country Life 16 July 184/1 My fear of the allium menace..prompts me to dead-head every species before seed-fall.

1992 Internat. Wildlife May 10 (caption) Classic seed predators, coconut crabs..skitter up trunks and crack the nuts in search of sweet meat.

2005 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 25 May 8 Seed dormancy..means some seeds can take years to germinate.

2013 K. S. Hadley et al. in M. F. Price et al. Mountain Geogr. vii. 193 Whitebark pine produces large, wingless seeds that rely on a bird..for seed dispersal.