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Definition of seed : 1. A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
2. Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
3. of Seed
4. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
5. Race; generation; birth.
6. That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
7. The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; - not used in the plural.
8. The principle of production.
9. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
10. To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

Synonyms:

worsen, genealogy, microbe, nucleus, grain, reference, inseminate, set, root, spark, reservoir, sow in, spore, kernel, seed down, run out, get, ejaculate, pedigree, line, author, informant, parentage, seeded player, blood, sow, ancestry, tuber, sough, bud, stock, cum, plant, come, descent, embryo, origin, offspring, posterity, pit, decay, germ, kin, seminal fluid, brood, waste, sperm, precede, lineage, set out, source, generator, extraction, pip, progeny, semen, beginning, issue, family, start, rootage, birth, bug, bloodline

Usage examples:

• O Stephen, I pray you to trouble no more about a lost plant of which you have seed in plenty, but make thanks that you still live and that through you my mother and I still live, who, if you had died, would weep our eyes away. - "Allan and the Holy Flower", H. Rider Haggard.
• What a disappointment to the poor creetur when she seed she hadn't hit him! - "How John Norton the Trapper Kept His Christmas", W. H. H. Murray.
• How should slaves produce anything but tyranny, even as the seed produces the plant? - "The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2)", Florence A. Thomas Marshall.