A seed is an encased plant embryo.

Seed(s) or The Seed(s) may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

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  • Seed (1931 film), a film notable for an early appearance by Bette Davis
  • Seed, a 1997 short film starring Rose McGowan
  • The Seed (2006 film), short film by Joe Hahn
  • Seed (2007 film), a Canadian horror film by Uwe Boll
  • The Seed (2021 film), a British body horror film by Sam Walker
  • Seed Productions, Hugh Jackman's film production company
  • Seeds (2024 film)
  • Seeds (2025 film)

Gaming

  • Seed (2006 video game), a defunct MMORPG developed by Runestone Game Development
  • Seed (upcoming video game), an upcoming MMO simulation game developed by Klang Games
  • Map seed, a number or text string used to initialize a procedural map generator in a video game
  • SeeDs, a fictional organization of elite mercenaries from the video game Final Fantasy VIII

Music

Groups and labels

  • Seed Records, a record label
  • The Seeds, a 1960s rock 'n' roll band
  • The Bad Seeds (American band), American garage rock band active 1964–66
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Australian rock band formed in 1983

Albums

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  • Seed (Nick Harper album), 1995
  • Seeds (Brother Cane album), 1995
  • Seed (Afro Celt Sound System album), 2003
  • Seed (Mami Kawada album), 2006
  • Seeds (Hey Rosetta! album), 2011
  • Seeds (Georgia Anne Muldrow album), 2012
  • Seeds (TV on the Radio album), 2014

Songs

  • "The Seed (2.0)", by The Roots and Cody Chesnutt
  • "The Seed" (Aurora song)
  • "Seed", by The Academy Is... from Santi
  • "Seed", by Carbon Leaf from Nothing Rhymes with Woman
  • "Seed", by Korn from Follow the Leader
  • "Seed", by Mudvayne from The Beginning of All Things to End
  • "Seed", by Sublime from Sublime
  • "Seeds", by Bon Jovi from Forever
  • "Seeds", by Bruce Springsteen from Live/1975–85
  • "The Seed", by Sasami from Blood on the Silver Screen

Periodicals and books

  • Seed (magazine), a U.S. science magazine
  • Seed (student newspaper), published at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Chicago Seed (newspaper), published in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., in the late 1960s
  • The Seed (novel), a 1940 novel by Tarjei Vesaas

Television

Series

  • Seed (TV series), a Canadian TV series
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, a Japanese anime series
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, a Japanese anime series

Episodes

  • "Seed" (The Walking Dead), 2012 episode
  • "Seeds" (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), 2014 episode
  • "Seeds", 2018 episode, see list of The Handmaid's Tale episodes
  • "Seeds", 2007 episode, see Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 7)
  • "Seeds", 2008 episode, see Sons of Anarchy (season 1)
  • "The Seed", 2008 episode, see Stargate Atlantis (season 5)
  • "The Seed", 2007 episode, see list of Pocoyo episodes

Visual arts

  • Sculptures by the Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por
  • Seed Series (1998)
  • Seeds (2006)

Education

  • SEED Foundation, operates boarding schools for disadvantaged youth in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland
  • SEED School (Toronto), a Toronto District School Board alternative high school located in Toronto, Canada

Organizations

  • SEED (organization), a global partnership for action on sustainable development and the green economy
  • The Seed (organization), a controversial drug rehabilitation program in the United States that operated between 1970 and 2001
  • Seed Mob, a climate change activist organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people

Science and technology

Computing

  • Random seed, a value used to initialize a pseudo-random number generator
  • SEED, a Korean block cipher
  • <code>seed</code> in data build tool, a type of CSV file based reference table for predefined data
  • Seed (programming), a JavaScript library of the GNOME
  • Seed7, an extensible general-purpose programming language
  • Seeding (computing), a practice within peer-to-peer file sharing
  • Seed (BitTorrent), a peer that has a complete copy of a torrented file and still offers it for upload
  • Seeds (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton rule similar to Conway's Game of Life

Other uses in science and technology

  • AOL Seed, an open content submission website and platform where writers and photographers could submit their work and get paid for each work submitted
  • Seed, a synonym for sperm or semen
  • Seed crystal, a small crystal from which a larger single crystal is to be grown
  • Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data, a data specification from the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks
  • Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS), a multi-year astronomical survey seeking to identify extrasolar planets and disks around nearby stars using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii

Other uses

  • Bīja, literally "seed", a metaphor for the origin or cause of things in Buddhism and Hinduism
  • Seed (sports), a ranked competitor for the purposes of a tournament draw
  • Seed (surname)
  • Seed money, an early stage in the development of an entrepreneurial firm

See also

  • Sead (disambiguation)
  • Sed (disambiguation)
  • The Seed Fund, a private music philanthropic organisation
  • Seeding (disambiguation)
  • Seedling (disambiguation)
  • Seeed, a German band
  • SEEEED, a region of the CCDC47 protein
  • Seid (disambiguation)
  • Seyd