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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | female reproductive cell |
| Synonyms: | egg, egg cell, gamete, oosphere, seed, spore |
| Main Entry: | germ |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | bud, cause, egg, embryo, inception, nucleus, origin, ovule, ovum, root, rudiment, seed, source, spark, spore, sprig, sprout |
| Main Entry: | seed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, source |
| Synonyms: | berry, bud, cell, conceit, concept, conception, core, corn, ear, egg, embryo, germ, grain, image, impression, inkling, kernel, notion, nucleus, nut, ovule, ovum, particle, rudiment, semen, spark, sperm, spore, start, suspicion |
| Notes: | cede means to give over, surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another - while a seed is a small hard fruit or a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat a spore is a lone reproductive cell capable of producing a plant without combining with another cell; a seed develops from sexual recombination of genes from within one plant or two separate plants |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, ending, result |
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