semination
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin seminatio: compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French sémination.
Noun
semination (countable and uncountable, plural seminations)
- The act of sowing or spreading.
- (botany) The natural dispersion of seeds.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Martyn to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “semination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)