7 sentences with 'seed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word seed and other words derived from it.
• « Coffee (from the Turkish kahvé, coffee plant seed) also has its prehistory, and the coffee houses of 18th century London remain archetypes of literary, political and social centres where dialogue sparkled under caffeine stimulation. »
• « However the seed made its way through the tangle of honeysuckle, wild roses and brambles, it was a hard task. »
• « Then, hidden deep in the thicket, the seed had to fight for its space from the moment it sprouted its first leaf; and before it had reached six inches in height, it had already begun to search eagerly for the vital energy that only the sun could give it. »
• « In 1977 a germinating seed was discovered in the left eye of an eight-year-old South African boy, probably from a marigold or daisy. It seems that all the conditions necessary for seed germination are present in the eye: warmth, oxygen, protection from sunlight and moisture. »
• « Ololiuqui is the seed of a species of vine that possesses compounds similar to lysergic acid (LSD). »
• « As a result of this process scientists have been able to determine that the substance obtained from the seeds of this tree has a taste similar to that of an orange or tangerine seed - bitter - that it is insect repellent and that it has a very complex molecular structure of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen atoms, apparently difficult to synthesise. »
• « "Here is how to proceed: place a good quantity of human seed in a still. Once this is sealed, it is kept at a temperature equal to the interior temperature of the horse, until it begins to animate, to live and to move. For another forty weeks it must be carefully fed with human blood and at the end of that period you will have a real, living child, like the one born of a woman, but much smaller. This is what we call a homunculus". »