EDIBLE SEED

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Meaning:

Many are used as seasoning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("edible seed" is a kind of...):

seed (a small hard fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edible seed"):

pumpkin seed (the edible seed of a pumpkin)

areca nut; betel nut (seed of betel palm; chewed with leaves of the betel pepper and lime as a digestive stimulant and narcotic in southeastern Asia)

water chinquapin (edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin)

dika nut (edible oil-rich seed of wild mango)

sunflower seed (edible seed of sunflowers; used as food and poultry feed and as a source of oil)

cumin; cumin seed (aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family)