seeds

     

A see [siːd] (help·info) (in some plants, referred to as a kernel) is a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant. The formation of the seed completes the process of reproduction in seed plants (started with the development of flowers and pollination), with the embryo developed from the zygote and the seed coat from the integuments of the ovule.

Trivia about seeds

  • Watermelon, pumpkin & sunflower ones can be toasted like nuts & served as hors d'oeuvres
  • If given a Muscat grape, many parrots will ignore the fruit & eat these
  • Cryptogams are not plants with secret meanings, but plants such as ferns that don't bear these
  • The cotton gin worked by removing these small, pesky items from the cotton
  • When a maple tree loses its keys, it loses these
  • A few hundred million years ago some plants had the bright idea to protect & spread their embryos in these
  • The part of the plant you're eating when you chow down on corn, peas or lima beans
  • Scarification is a technique where hard-shelled ones of these are scratched to help them sprout
  • Harvester ants collect these food items & store them in underground chambers
  • The Doomsday Vault in Arctic Norway preserves these in case of a disaster affecting the world's food supply

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