| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock. See KIN, PRECEDE. 2. A source of further growth and development: bud1, embryo, germ, kernel, nucleus, spark1. See START. 3. A group consisting of those descended directly from the same parents or ancestors: brood, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny. See KIN. 4. A fertilized plant ovule capable of germinating: kernel, pip, pit2. See START. 5. A propagative part of a plant: spore, tuber. See START. 6. The male fluid of fertilization: semen, sperm. See START. | | VERB: | To put (seeds) into the ground for growth: plant, sow. See START.
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