Meaning of seedhouse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A business that specializes in selling seeds, especially one that operates via mail order.
2. A building that is used for storing seeds.

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.”

“I am particularly baffled by those who wait to buy their seeds until they are ready to plant them, then have to get them at a store instead of from a seedhouse.”

“There was also a seedhouse which sold (both retail and wholesale with discount) vegetable, flower and agricultural seeds as well as garden tools and 'other requisites'.”

“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.”

“They thrived by cultivating all kinds of seeds for sale, storing them in a seedhouse five stories high.”

“In a single room of a seedhouse in California 235 house mice were trapped within a year, and during a mouse outbreak in the central farmlands of California the population was estimated at 200,000 per hectare.”

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