SEEDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seeded mean? 

• SEEDED (adjective)
  The adjective SEEDED has 5 senses:

1. (of the more skilled contestants) selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds

2. having the seeds extracted

3. having seeds as specified

4. having or supplied with seeds

5. sprinkled with seed

  Familiarity information: SEEDED used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEEDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of the more skilled contestants) selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds

Antonym:

unseeded (not seeded; used of players of lesser skill)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having the seeds extracted

Context example:

seeded raisins

Similar:

seedless (lacking seeds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having seeds as specified

Context example:

black-seeded

Similar:

seedy (full of seeds)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Having or supplied with seeds

Context example:

seeded rolls

Similar:

seedy (full of seeds)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Sprinkled with seed

Synonyms:

seeded; sown

Context example:

a seeded lawn

Similar:

planted (set in the soil for growth)

 Context examples 

Cells with greater ability to proliferate dominated the tumors over time, and that metastases were seeded by a small set of cells.

(Novel Approach Gives Insights Into Tumor Development, NIH)

In cell culture, the process in which cells are disassociated, washed, and seeded into new culture vessels after a round of cell growth and proliferation.

(Passage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Adult human fat-derived stem cells obtained from liposuction waste were seeded onto the outer surface of the porous scaffolds.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

A plant family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets which includes the mints, thyme, sage, and rosemary.

(Lamiaceae, NCI Thesaurus)

For the experiment, researchers first stripped plant cells from spinach leaves and passed beads the size of human blood cells through the leftover vascular system and seeded the spinach veins with human cells that line our blood vessels.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)