reseed


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reseed

(ˌriːˈsiːd)
vb (tr)
to sow seeds again on (a lawn, pitch, etc) in order to grow something
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Verb1.reseed - seed again or anew
farming, husbandry, agriculture - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
seed - go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed"
2.reseed - maintain by seeding without human intervention; "Some plants reseed themselves indefinitely"
maintain, sustain, keep - supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep"
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Translations

reseed

[ˌriːˈsiːd] vt [+ lawn, pitch] → refaire
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"Not to be confused with Japanese millet, wild millet readily reseeds itself year after year because of how the mature seed heads shatter off onto the ground.
We need to figure out how to evaluate the extent of postfire mortality for plants and decide whether or not it's always necessary to reseed after fires," says rangeland scientist Tony Svejcar.
Several useful herbs and greens reseed with such abandon they must be handled as potentially invasive plants.
Conducting the experiment on rats' lungs, the scientists found that the reseeded lungs worked just as the original lungs.
Specifically, allogenic intrasynovial flexor tendons were acellularized and then the constructs were reseeded with epitenon and endotenon intrasynovial cells expanded in cell culture.
Park Service will fence off sections of the Mall to reseed.
But trying to reseed bare mountains by plane is no picnic.
And Wilkinson's forest management plan rests on some remarkably simple principles: never cut more than your annual growth rate; don't cut all your biggest and oldest tees; and never cut your tallest tree (the tallest tree prompts all others to grow straight up and surpass it); maintain a multiple-height, multiple-age, multiple-species forest; always leave a canopy (has nature been wrong for thousands of years by regenerating under the protection of parent trees?); leave dead wood and debris where it falls; keep your eye out for good seed trees (let the squirrels and chipmunks show you which cones they prefer to dine on), and let those trees naturally reseed your forest; keep chemicals out of your forest.
Mend damaged lawn areas and reseed or overseed bare or thin patches