Reseed

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To sow seeds again; to apply seed to (a plot of land) again. intransitive, transitive

    "When the birds ate the seeds he had planted, the farmer was forced to reseed the field."

  2. 2
    maintain by seeding without human intervention wordnet
  3. 3
    Of a non-perennial plant, to produce seeds to ensure the following generation without human intervention; to self-sow.

    "The marigolds had reseeded themselves in the flower box, so he didn't have to buy new ones this year."

  4. 4
    seed again or anew wordnet
  5. 5
    To reset the input of an algorithm so as to ensure different results.

    "The game reseeded its random number algorithm with a time-based value each time the game was restarted."

Etymology

From re- + seed.

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