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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

播种

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bō zhǒng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Seminate/ˈsɛm.ɪ.neɪt/
verbCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我们在春天播种希望,在秋天收获果实。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To sow or plant seed; to propagate or disseminate biologically.

    "The experimental grasses were designed to seminate rapidly across the degraded landscape."
  2. 2

    To instill, spread, or disperse ideas, knowledge, or doctrines among a group.

    "The philosophers sought to seminate revolutionary concepts throughout the academy."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'seminare', meaning 'to sow seed', which comes from 'semen', meaning 'seed'. Entering the English language in the late 16th century, it initially retained its agricultural and biological meaning before evolving to describe the metaphorical dissemination of ideas, teachings, or principles.

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