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.

* Those species which have relatively large dry seeds have a dark, crust-like ( crustose ) outer layer containing the pigment phytomelan.

The seeds have an oily endosperm and generally contain large quantities of fatty oils, with the fatty acid petroselinic acid occurring universally throughout the family while rarely being found outside of the Apiaceae.

As befits its weedy life history, amaranth grains grow very rapidly and their large seedheads can weigh up to 1 kilogram and contain a half-million seeds in three species of amaranth.

Although cumin seeds contain a relatively large percentage of iron, extremely large quantities of cumin would need to be consumed for it to serve as a significant dietary source ( see nutrition data ).

The oil and large doses of seeds should be avoided during pregnancy, as they can act as a uterine stimulant.

are also not consumed by some Jains owing to the large number of seeds in the vegetable, as a seed is a form of life.

However, seeds, such as grains and beans, were rarely eaten and never in large quantities on a daily basis.

Darwin emphasizes that he used the phrase " struggle for existence " in " a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another "; he gives examples ranging from plants struggling against drought to plants competing for birds to eat their fruit and disseminate their seeds.

Unlike culinary banana s, wild-type bananas have numerous large, hard seeds.

Some species have large seeds, called pine nuts, that are harvested and sold for cooking and baking.

Shakers were the first large producers of medicinal herbs in the United States, and pioneers in the sale of seeds in paper packets.

The subsequent release of large quantities of seeds coincides with the optimal postfire seedbed conditions.

Chipmunks, mice, voles, and shrews eat large quantities of conifer seeds from the forest floor, and clipped cones are a staple and major part of storage of red squirrels.

These animals store a large amount of Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir cones or seeds.

The seeds are minute and produced in large quantities.

It is filled with sweet, mucilaginous pulp ( called ' baba de cacao ' in South America ) enclosing 30 to 50 large seeds that are fairly soft and white to a pale lavender color.

Capsaicin is present in large quantities in the placental tissue ( which holds the seeds ), the internal membranes and, to a lesser extent, the other fleshy parts of the fruits of plants in the genus Capsicum.

Annual species are often planted for their allelopathic properties .. Results showed that higher water uptake and hull rate was obtained from large seeds.

Small seeds germinated and grew more rapidly compared to large seeds of the same cultivars under NaCl stress.

Therefore, viability after accelerated ageing was lower in small seeds than large seeds.