How to Use seedpod in a Sentence

seedpod

noun

• Small balls of gray catkin fluff blew on the wind, seedpods from poplars, which bloom all over Warsaw in the spring.
  — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
• From full bloom to seedpod, use plants at all stages to keep things seasonal.
  — Mike Irvine, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Papaver rhoeas seedpods can be harvested and the seed kept for future plants.
  — Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• All parts of the plant are edible: The root has a horseradishlike flavor, the long seedpods can be peeled, and the lacy, deep-green leaves are high in antioxidants.
  — Houston Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
• If fertilization is successful, the seedpods will develop and ripen in a few weeks to a few months.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• If fertilization is successful, the seedpods will develop and ripen in a few weeks to a few months.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• The seedpods are prized by cut flower arrangers, and by gardeners who like to shock visitors to their garden.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
• For example, some may block large debris, such as broad leaves and long pine needles, while allowing seedpods and other small bits to enter the gutter.
  — Cynthia Wilson, kansascity, 1 Oct. 2017
• Brassicas such as broccoli produce seedpods that are flavorful and can be stir-fried.
  — Barbara Damrosch, sacbee.com, 4 July 2017
• The pretty white or yellowish flowers have a sweet scent and soon develop into 12-to-18-inch-long, hanging seedpods that take three months to mature.
  — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
• Holding the stick, or occasionally a hard seedpod, with his left foot (parrots are typically left-footed), the male taps a beat on his tree perch.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 28 June 2017
• The flowers are insignificant, but the seedpods are distinctive.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
• Rain Wood’ and ‘Mist.’ Today’s haul of stray seedpods and bark fragments, cow parsley and dandelion could well form the foundation for the next batch of summer scents that Harris is currently concocting.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2018
• The subject matter is nominally secular, abstracted from nature: orbs and orifices, branches and seedpods, swirls of wind or wave.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
• Researchers observing 18 palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus) in northern Australia discovered that, when courting a mate, male cockatoos grab a stick or a seedpod and start rhythmically whacking a hollow tree branch, producing a steady beat.
  — Andrew Wagner, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2017

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024