seed A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiospe ...

is an encased plant embryo. Seed or seeds may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* ''SeeD'', a mercenary working for

Garden A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is ''control''. The garden can incorporate bot ...

in the video game ''Final Fantasy VIII'' * SEED, the unknown, plantlike life form that features in the video game ''

Phantasy Star Universe (''PSU'') is an action role-playing video game developed by Sega's Sonic Team for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 platforms. It was released in Japan for the PC and PlayStation 2 on August 31, 2006; the Xbox 360 version was re ...

Films

* ''Seed'' (1931 film), a film notable for an early appearance by Bette Davis * ''Seed'', a 1997 short film starring

Rose McGowan Rósa Arianna "Rose" McGowan (born September 5, 1973) is an American actress. After her film debut in a brief role in the comedy '' Encino Man'' (1992), McGowan achieved wider recognition for her performance in the dark comedy ''The Doom Generat ...

* ''The Seed'' (short film), a 2005 short film produced and directed by Joe Hahn of Linkin Park * ''Seed'' (2007 film), a Canadian horror film by Uwe Boll * ''The Seed'' (2021 film), a British body horror film by Sam Walker *

Seed Productions Seed Productions was a film production company associated with 20th Century Fox, started by Australian actors Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, with producer and business partner John Palermo. The company's headquarters were located at the 2 ...

, Hugh Jackman's film production company

Gaming

* ''Seed'' (2006 video game), a defunct MMORPG developed by Runestone Game Development * ''Seed'' (upcoming video game), an upcoming MMO simulation game developed by Klang Games *

Map seed In video games using procedural generation, procedural world generation, the map seed is a (relatively) short number or text string which is used to procedurally create the game world ("map"). This means that while the seed-unique generated map may ...

, a number or text string used to initialize a procedural map generator in a video game

Music

Groups and labels

* Seed Records, a record label *

The Seeds The Seeds were an American psychedelic garage rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965, best known for their highest charting single " Pushin' Too Hard". The band's classic line-up featured frontman Sky Saxon, guitarist Jan Savag ...

, a 1960s rock 'n' roll band *

Seeed Seeed is a German hip hop, reggae and dancehall band based in Berlin. Founded in 1998, they have become well known in Germany and its neighboring countries. Musical style and lyrics Seeed consists of eleven band members, including three ...

, a German reggae fusion band

Albums

* ''Seed'' (Afro Celt Sound System album), or the title song * ''Seed'' (Nick Harper album), 1995 * ''Seeds'' (Brother Cane album), 1995 * ''Seeds'' (Hey Rosetta! album), 2011 * ''Seed'' (Mami Kawada album), 2006 * ''Seeds'' (TV on the Radio album), 2014

Songs

* "Seed", by The Academy Is... from ''

Santi Santi is used as: People with the surname * Brenden Santi (born 1993), Australian-Italian rugby league player * Domenico Santi (1621–1694), also known as il Mengazzino, Italian painter * Emanuele Santi, Italian economist and political scienti ...

'' * "Seed", by Carbon Leaf from ''

Nothing Rhymes with Woman ''Nothing Rhymes with Woman'' is the seventh studio album by the Virginia band Carbon Leaf and their third on the Vanguard Records Vanguard Recording Society is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon i ...

'' * "Seed", by Korn from '' Follow the Leader'' * "Seed", by Mudvayne from '' The Beginning of All Things to End * "Seed", by Sublime from '' Sublime'' * "Seeds", by Bruce Springsteen from '' Live/1975–85'' * " The Seed (2.0)", by The Roots and Cody Chesnutt, 2002 * "The Seed", by Aurora from '' A Different Kind of Human (Step 2)''

Periodicals and books

* ''Seed'' (magazine), a U.S. science magazine * ''Seed'' (student newspaper), published at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia * ''Chicago Seed'' (newspaper), published in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., in the late 1960s * ''The Seed'' (novel), a 1940 novel by Tarjei Vesaas

Television and anime

Series

* ''Seed'' (TV series), a Canadian TV series * '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'', a Japanese anime series **''

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny is an anime television series, a direct sequel to ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' by Sunrise and the overall tenth installment in the '' Gundam'' franchise. It retains most of the staff from ''Gundam SEED'', including Director Mitsuo Fukuda. S ...

'', its sequel

Episodes

* "Seed" (''The Walking Dead''), 2012 * "Seeds" (''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.''), 2014 * "Seeds" (''The Handmaid's Tale''), 2018 * "Seeds" (''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''), 2007 * "Seeds" (''Sons of Anarchy''), 2008 * "The Seed" (''Stargate Atlantis''), 2008

Visual arts

*Sculptures by the Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por ** ''Seed Series'' (1998) **''Seeds'' (2006)

Education

* SEED Foundation, operates boarding schools for disadvantaged youth in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland * SEED School (Toronto), a Toronto District School Board alternative high school located in Toronto, Canada

Organizations

* SEED (organization), a global partnership for action on sustainable development and the green economy * The Seed (organization), a controversial drug rehabilitation program in the United States that operated between 1970 and 2001 *

Seed A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiospe ...

, a climate change activist organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people

Science and technology

Computing

* Seeds (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton rule similar to Conway's ''Game of Life'' *

Seeding (computing) In computing, and specifically peer-to-peer file sharing, seeding is the uploading of already downloaded content for others to download from. A peer, a computer that is connected to the network, becomes a seed when having acquired the entire set ...

, a practice within peer-to-peer file sharing **

Seed (BitTorrent) This is a glossary of jargon related to peer-to-peer file sharing via the BitTorrent protocol. Terms Availability :(Also known as distributed copies.) The number of full copies of a file (or set of files and directories) directly available t ...

, a peer that has a complete copy of a torrented file and still offers it for upload * Seed (programming), a JavaScript library of the GNOME *

Random seed A random seed (or seed state, or just seed) is a number (or vector) used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator. For a seed to be used in a pseudorandom number generator, it does not need to be random. Because of the nature of number gene ...

, a value used to initialize a pseudo-random number generator *

SEED A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiospe ...

, a Korean block cipher * Seed7, an extensible general-purpose programming language * Backdoor.Win32.Seed, a backdoor Trojan

Other uses in science and technology

* Seed, a synonym for sperm or semen * Seed crystal, a small crystal from which a larger single crystal is to be grown * AOL Seed, an open content submission website and platform where writers and photographers could submit their work and get paid for each work submitted * Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data, a data specification from the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks * Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS), a multi-year astronomical survey seeking to identify extrasolar planets and disks around nearby stars using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii

Other uses

* Seed (sports), a ranked competitor for the purposes of a tournament draw * Seed (surname) *

Seed money Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding or seed capital, is a form of securities offering in which an investor invests capital in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company. The term ''seed'' ...

, an early stage in the development of an entrepreneurial firm * ''

Bīja In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit term Bīja () ( Jp. 種子 shuji) (Chinese 种子 zhǒng zǐ), literally seed, is used as a metaphor for the origin or cause of things and cognate with bindu. Buddhist theory of karmic seeds Various schools ...

'', literally "seed", a metaphor for the origin or cause of things in Buddhism and Hinduism