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seme

seed

noun SEH-meh Rare
Animals & Nature Plants

Origin: Latin semen, seminis

Also means

suit (cards)

Usage Note

Seme is the botanical seed but also the Italian word for a suit in a deck of cards (i semi delle carte are the four suits). It additionally means semen in the biological sense. The plural is regular — semi.

Examples

"Ho piantato i semi di pomodoro in marzo."

Natural Translation

I planted the tomato seeds in March.

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