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kylvää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • plant noun A living organism, typically rooted in soil, that makes its own food through photosynthesis — trees, flowers, grasses, and similar life forms.
  • seed noun A small hard part of a plant from which a new plant can grow.
  • shower noun A device that sprays water over a person for washing, or the act of washing this way.
  • Sow noun An adult female pig, especially one that has had a litter.

Senses

kylvää is used for these senses in English:

  • plant (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
  • seed (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
  • shower To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
  • sow (ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).

plant — full definition

  1. noun A living organism, typically rooted in soil, that makes its own food through photosynthesis — trees, flowers, grasses, and similar life forms.
  2. noun A factory or other building where an industrial process is carried out.
  3. noun An object or person secretly placed somewhere to deceive people, gather information, or make someone look guilty.
  4. verb To put a seed, seedling, or crop into soil so that it will grow.
  5. verb To place something or someone secretly, especially to create a false impression or set someone up.

seed — full definition

  1. noun A small hard part of a plant from which a new plant can grow.
  2. noun The origin or starting point of something that later develops.
  3. noun A competitor's ranked starting position in a tournament.
  4. verb To plant seeds in an area.
  5. verb To assign a rank or starting position to a competitor in a tournament.

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