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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