Meaning of "seed"

seed •

n.
• • thing from which anything grows: binhi, buto, simiya

» synonyms and related words:

nut

n.
• • 1. dry fruit or seed with a kernel in a hard shell: nuwes
  • 2. peanut: mani
  • 3. a kind of nut similar to cashew nut: pili
  • 4. walnut: nuwes de nogal
  • 5. coconut: niyog
  • 6. a small block, usually of metal, which screws on to a bolt: tuwerka
  • 7. a crazy person (slang): loko/a, hibang

pea

n.
• • a round seed in the pod of a plant used as a vegetable, the plant itself: gisantes

screen

n.
• • 1. a covered frame that hides, protects, or separates: tabing
  • 2. surface on which (motion) pictures are shown: puting-tabing
  • 3. a sieve for sifting sand, gravel, coal, seed, etc.: bithay, panala, salaan

v.
• • 1. to shelter, protect or hide with a screen: magtabing, tabingan
  • 2. to show (a motion picture) on a screen: ipakita sa puting-tabing, magpalabas (palabasin sa sine)
  • 3. to sift by using a sieve or screen: mabithay, bithayin, magsala, salain

seedling

n.
• • a young plant grown from a seed: punla

stone

n.
• • 1. a hard mineral matter which is not a metal, rock, piece of rock: bato
  • 2. a gem, jewel: mahalagang bato, hiyas na bato, brilyante
  • 3. a hard seed: buto
  • 4. something hard and rounded like a stone which sometimes forms in the kidneys or gall bladder: bato

v.
• • to throw stones at: bumato, batuhin, humagis (maghagis, hagisan) ng bato, pumukol (pukulin) ng bato

rice

n.
• • 1. the unhusked seed or grain of a plant grown in a warm climate: palay
  • 2. the plant itself: palay
  • 3. the husked grain: bigas
  • 4. the cooked grains: kanin
  • 5. burnt rice at the bottom of the pot: tutong
  • 6. the grains cooked with much water (rice porridge): lugaw, nilugaw
  • 7. a sticky variety of rice: malagkit
  • 8. fried rice: sinangag
  • 9. the broken grains of the husked rice: binlid
  • 10. rice bran: darak
  • 11. rice husk: ipa

peanuts

n.
• • a seed like a nut used for food, the plant it grows on: mani

germ

n.
• • 1. a simple animal or plant, too small to be seen, which causes disease: mikrobyo
  • 2. seed: binhi
  • 3. the beginning of anything: simula, pinagmulan, pinanggalingan

nutmeg

n.
• • a hard spicy seed from the fruit of an East Indian tree: nuwes muskada

grain

n.
• • seed of plants: butil

binhi

n.
• • seed (chosen for the nursery)

buto

n.
• • seed, bone

lulon

v.
• • lumulon, lulunin (-um-:in) to swallow. Lumulon siya ng buto ng santol. He swallowed the seed of the santol.

v.
• • malulon (ma-) to swallow (accidentally). Nalulon ng bata ang imperdible. The child swallowed a safety pin. maglulon, lulunin, ilulon (mag-:in, i-)

v.
• • to roll up as paper money, mat or the like. Ilulon mo ang banig. Roll up the mat.

sibol

n.
• • growth, bud, sprout, spring of water

v.
• • sumibol (-um-) to grow, sprout. Sumibol ang butong itinanim ko. The seed that I planted grew.