Definitions
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- adjective having black seeds
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Examples
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And here are luscious figs bursting with seedy sweetness, and apricots rusted in the sun, and velvety peaches that break into juice in your mouth, and great black-seeded _cocomeri_.
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North, had taken his fill of sweet, black-seeded, carnation-tinted pulp at some plantation in the harried South.
The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913
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These are the short-stapled, upland variety most commonly grown in all the Southern states, and the beautiful, long-stapled, black-seeded sea-island type that grows upon the islands and a portion of the mainland of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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Some persons think that the black-seeded variety is more
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Dr. Savi [938] tried the experiment with care: he sowed yellow and black-seeded maize together, and on the same ear some of the seeds were yellow, some black, and some mottled, [939] the differently coloured seeds being arranged in rows or irregularly.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Plant Big Boy tomatoes, Kennebec potatoes, Bolero carrots and black-seeded Simpson lettuce.
RutlandHerald.com 2010
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I just harvested a tidy little batch of black-seeded Simpson leaf lettuce.
such small hands 2009
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I grew "black-seeded Simpson" lettuce from a 19-cent package that rivaled anything I bought mail-order for five times the price.
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