Seedhouse
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A business that specializes in selling seeds, especially one that operates via mail order.
"They found him slumped at his desk in a small, square office, whose walls were tacked with dodger posters and a calendar from a seedhouse showing a golden cornucopia spilling out such big garden vegetables they were scary."
- 2 A building that is used for storing seeds.
"To date, 37 landraces of rice, 5 of sponge gourd, 3 of pigeon pea and 2 of finger millet seeds have been collected and stored in the seedhouse (Table 2) and this number is increasing."
Example
More examples"They found him slumped at his desk in a small, square office, whose walls were tacked with dodger posters and a calendar from a seedhouse showing a golden cornucopia spilling out such big garden vegetables they were scary."
Etymology
From seed + house.
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