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Example sentences for "single seed"

  • The ovary contains one or two carpels, each containing a single seed, and these when ripe are enclosed in a capsule, formed by the tubular part of the calyx becoming hardened.

  • Each ovary has two styles, though it produces only a single seed.

  • The fruit is a utricle, having a single seed, encircled by a broad thin transparent membrane.

  • Hildebrand to penetrate it; nevertheless these eighty-four flowers did not produce a single seed-capsule!

  • But such is not the case; they are all infertile, but in various degrees; some being so utterly and incurably sterile that they did not yield during four seasons a single seed or even seed-capsule.

  • Reproduction takes place beneath the parent tree, and frequently the old trunk dies without having succeeded in planting a single seed to perpetuate the species.

  • It inhabits an arid region, and bears fruit sparingly, with usually a single seed in a pod.

  • I examined many flowers on both plants, and found the stigmas spontaneously covered with pollen; but they produced not a single seed.

  • During one season several covered-up plants did not produce a single seed.

  • But all these capsules were small, some being empty; the greater number contained only a single seed, and very rarely more than one.

  • The linking of parallel-veined leaves and a single seed leaf, and net-veined leaves with two seed leaves, is also associated with very definite arrangement of their flower parts, their method of growth and other characters.

  • Three short-styled plants were protected by me from the access of insects, and they did not produce a single seed.

  • The fruit is a blackish-red, almost globular, slightly-flattened berry, containing a single seed.

  • The pods are usually near an inch long, on spreading stalks; with a stout, flattened beak, longer than the pod itself, containing a single seed.

  • The fruits are spreading, many-angled pods, usually about an inch in length, constricted between the seeds when ripe, with a beak about a third the length of the whole pod enclosing a single seed at its base.

  • They are all infertile, in various degrees; some being so utterly and incurably sterile that they did not yield during four seasons a single seed or even seed-capsule.

  • Capsule ovoid, with sometimes 2 ovules but ripening only a single seed in each cell.

  • Pod depressed, with a single seed in each cell.

  • A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

  • An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single seed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    banquet given; more efficient; rather thick; single acre; single city; single dollar; single drop; single family; single fight; single form; single generation; single glance; single glass; single grain; single hair; single head; single night; single season; single seed; single ship; single species; single stone; single stroke; single track; single vote; sweet almonds