General term for a seed or pit of a plant; used in botanical, agricultural, and everyday contexts.
The farmer sowed seeds in the field.
A sprout came out from this apple seed.
Please till the soil before sowing the seeds.
When it gets warm, the seeds germinate.
We collect the seeds after the flowers have bloomed.
The research institute preserves seeds from around the world.
種子 (a seed) and 趣旨 (the gist or purpose of something) are pronounced identically but have completely unrelated meanings.
種子 refers to a seed produced by flowering plants for sexual reproduction, while 胞子 is a spore used for asexual reproduction in fungi, ferns, and mosses.
grain; bead; drop · counter for small round objects
Compound of 種 (しゅ, 'seed') and 子 (し, 'child; small thing'), forming a Sino-Japanese word for 'seed'.