Literary notes about seed (AI summary)
The term "seed" is used in literature to evoke both literal and figurative meanings, acting simultaneously as a botanical element and a metaphor for origins and potential. In some texts, it refers directly to the small, essential unit that grows into a plant or is used in culinary and medicinal contexts, as noted in discussions on coffee cultivation and herbal remedies [1, 2, 3]. At the same time, religious and philosophical works elevate the seed as a symbol of lineage, legacy, and the inception of ideas—illustrated by references to spiritual heirs and the transmission of divine qualities [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Through these varied uses, the word "seed" becomes a powerful motif for growth, transformation, and the perpetuation of life and wisdom [9, 10].
- They were grown from seed of the Coffea arabica brought to Malabar from Arabia.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The root is often used, but the seed much more.
— from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper - —The seed of the fruit is astringent and is given internally as an infusion in dysentery and chronic diarrhœa.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera - He prepared them bread in the first place unto fulness: for the sacrifices also of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave to him, and to his seed.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother's wife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam - See, son of Cronos, I preserved my gift; in my deepest heart grew the seed that you sowed.
— from Best Russian Short Stories
