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EDIBLE SEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does edible seed mean?
• EDIBLE SEED (noun)
The noun EDIBLE SEED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: EDIBLE SEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Many are used as seasoning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("edible seed" is a kind of...):
seed (a small hard fruit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edible seed"):
pumpkin seed (the edible seed of a pumpkin)
areca nut; betel nut (seed of betel palm; chewed with leaves of the betel pepper and lime as a digestive stimulant and narcotic in southeastern Asia)
water chinquapin (edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin)
dika nut (edible oil-rich seed of wild mango)
sunflower seed (edible seed of sunflowers; used as food and poultry feed and as a source of oil)
cumin; cumin seed (aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family)
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