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The seeds are long and thick, and straight to slightly curved with a longitudinally ridged surface.
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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.
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Oils, or liquid fats, from the seeds of flax and tung have long been the principal constituents of paints and varnishes for protecting and beautifying the surfaces of wood and metal.
The color and shape of seeds have long made them attractive for ornaments and decorations.
The seeds are broad ovoid to globose, 1. 5 – 2 mm long and wide.
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 ovoid, 2 – 3mm long, with prominent style remnants at the apex.
The fruit is a siliqua 5 – 20 mm long, containing 20 – 30 seeds.
The fruit is a round, dry capsule 5 – 9 mm diameter, containing several glossy brown seeds shaped like an apple pip, 4 – 7 mm long.
The seed cones are 4 – 7 cm long and mature in 18 – 20 months, though they typically remain green and closed for up to 20 years ; each cone has 30-50 spirally arranged scales, with several seeds on each scale, giving an average of 230 seeds per cone.
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.
) long, containing numerous — in some species winged — seeds.
The fruit is a slender, dehiscent capsule long, which splits in two to release the numerous small black or dark brown seeds.
Pods are long, containing 1 to 4 seeds.
Because of its long isolation, the Seychelles hosts several unique species including the Coco de mer, a palm which has the largest seeds of any plant and the world's largest population of giant tortoises.
Thus the short flowers grow wasps, whereas the long flowers become seeds.
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.
The seeds are 10 – 15 mm long, with a 20 – 30 mm wing ; as in Abies, the seeds have 2 – 3 resin blisters, containing an unpleasant-tasting resin, thought to be a defence against squirrel predation.
The fruit is a hairy pod that grows in clusters of three to five, each pod is 3 – 8 cm long ( 1 – 3 in ) and usually contains two to four ( rarely more ) seeds 5 – 11 mm in diameter.
It can also survive in the soil for long periods with buried seeds.
Hence, it has three interlocking reproductive strategies: dominance of local habitats by clonal growth, survival of long inhospitable periods with buried seeds, and dispersal to new sites with wind-dispersed seeds.
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