Ants carry away the seeds so better be sure that there are no ant hills nearby.

Sprouted grains and seeds are used in salads and dishes such as chop suey.

Blanched peanuts, as prepared for making peanut butter or for eating as nuts, are roasted seeds whose seedcoats have been rubbed off.

More than half of the sorghum and barley seeds we produce and most of the byproducts of the milling of cereals and the crushing of oilseeds are fed to livestock.

More than 200 million tons of seeds and seed products are fed to livestock annually in the United States.

The efficiency with which animals convert grains and forages to meat has risen steadily in the United States since the 1930's and has paralleled the increased feeding of the cake and meal that are a byproduct when seeds are processed for oil.

Chief among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial uses are the oil-bearing seeds -- flax, castor, tung ( nuts from the China wood-oil tree ), perilla ( from an Oriental mint ), and oiticica ( from a Brazilian tree ).

Solid fats from the seeds of the mahua tree, the shea tree, and the coconut palm are used to make candles in tropical countries.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

Bead tree seeds are the necklaces of South Pacific islanders and the eyes of Buddha dolls in Cuba.

Still another group of seeds ( sometimes tiny, dry, seed-bearing fruits ) provide distinctive flavors and odors to foods, although the nutrients they supply are quite negligible.

Beverages are made from seeds the world over.

Many desert annuals are therophytes, because their seed-to-seed life cycle is only weeks and they spend most of the year as seeds to survive dry conditions.

The flowers are usually arranged in inflorescences, and the mature seeds lack endosperm.

An Oligocene ( 34 – 23 Mya ) pollen is known for Asteraceae and Goodeniaceae, and seeds from Oligocene and Miocene ( 23 – 5. 3 Mya ) are known for Menyanthaceae and Campanulaceae respectively.

The plentiful seeds of the umbers, likewise, are sometimes used in cuisine, as with, coriander ( Coriandrum sativum ), fennel ( Foeniculum vulgare ), cumin ( Cuminum cyminum ), and caraway ( Carum carvi ).

These trees differ from the birches ( Betula, the other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones.

# Its seeds are a good source of protein.

Although the Turun Sanomat Building and Paimio Sanatorium are comparatively pure modernist works, they too carried the seeds of his questioning of such an orthodox modernist approach and a move to a more daring, synthetic attitude.

Research grade agar is used extensively in plant biology as it is supplemented with a nutrient and vitamin mixture that allows for seedling germination in Petri dishes under sterile conditions ( given that the seeds are sterilized as well ).

It opens by two valves, which are the modified carpels, leaving the seeds attached to a framework made up of the placenta and tissue from the junction between the valves ( replum ).

Gymnosperms are seed-producing plants which have open seeds, such as conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophyta.

Angiosperms are seed-producing plants that produce flowers, having enclosed seeds.

Bean () is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae ( alternately Leguminosae ) some of which are used for human food or animal feed.

The fruit is a spiny capsule 4 – 10 cm long and 2 – 6 cm broad, splitting open when ripe to release the numerous seeds.

The seeds are large and heavy, 10 mm long and 8 mm broad, with a short rounded wing 12 mm long ; they may be bird or mammal dispersed as the wing is too small to be effective for wind dispersal.

The seeds are long and broad, with a wing.

The seeds are 5 – 6 mm long and 3 – 4 mm broad, with a 12 – 15 mm wing.

The seed cones are barrel-shaped, 6 – 12 cm long and 3 – 8 cm broad, green maturing grey-brown, and, as in Abies, disintegrate at maturity to release the winged seeds.

A broad array of animals depend on mistletoe for food, consuming the leaves and young shoots, transferring pollen between plants, and dispersing the sticky seeds.

Her headdress consisted of several broad bands that in all probability were made of cotton and trimmed with amaranth seeds.

Shade-dwelling genera usually have broad, net-veined leaves, fleshy fruits with animal-dispersed seeds, rhizomes, and small, inconspicuous flowers ; genera native to sunny habitats usually have narrow, parallel-veined leaves, capsular fruits with wind-dispersed seeds, bulbs, and large, visually conspicuous flowers.

They can be recognized by their large, heart-shaped to three-lobed leaves, showy white or yellow flowers in broad panicles, and in the autumn by their long fruits, which resemble a slender bean pod, containing numerous small flat seeds, each seed having two thin wings to aid in wind dispersal.

Each pod contains 3-8 seeds ; round to oval and 5 – 10 mm diameter in the wild plant, usually flattened and up to 20 – 25 mm long, 15 mm broad and 5 – 10 mm thick in food cultivars.

In much of the English-speaking world, the name " broad bean " is used for the large-seeded cultivars grown for human food, while horse bean and field bean refer to cultivars with smaller, harder seeds ( more like the wild species ) used for animal feed, though their stronger flavour is preferred in some human food recipes, such as falafel.

Cone scale base broad, concealing the seeds fully from abaxial view.

Cone scale base broad, concealing the seeds fully from abaxial view.

Cone scale base broad, concealing the seeds fully from abaxial view.

The flowers are wind-pollinated catkins, produced before the leaves in early spring, the small 1-2mm winged seeds ripening in late summer on pendulous, cylindrical catkins long and 7 mm broad.

The cones are slender, 10 – 18 mm long and 4 – 5 mm broad, with 8 – 12 ( rarely 14 ) thin, overlapping scales ; they are green to yellow-green, ripening brown in fall about six months after pollination, and open at maturity to shed the seeds.

The seeds are 4 – 5 mm long and 1 mm broad, with a narrow papery wing down each side.

These latter, often known in English as Southwestern White Pine, are often listed as Pinus strobiformis, but differ from true Pinus strobiformis in having shorter needles, 6-11 cm long, which are only slightly serrated towards the tips of the needles rather than serrated along the full length ; and smaller, narrower cones, typically 10-20 cm long and 6-8 cm broad, the cone scales not having a very prolonged apex ; the seeds are also slightly smaller.

The name Cucumber tree comes from the unripe fruit, which is green and often shaped like a small cucumber ; the fruit matures to a dark red color and is 6-8 cm long and 4 cm broad, with the individual carpels splitting open to release the bright red seeds, 10-60 per fruit.

The cones are 4 – 7 cm long, with broad, rounded scales ; the seeds are 8 – 11 mm long, with a vestigial 2 – 10 mm wing.

They open slowly over the next year or two to release the seeds, opening to 5-8 cm broad.

The fruit is a three-parted inflated bladderlike pod 3 – 6 cm long and 2 – 4 cm broad, green ripening orange to pink in autumn, containing several dark brown to black seeds 5 – 8 mm diameter.

The cones open to broad when mature, releasing the seeds immediately after opening.