Sentences with phrase «roughed up seed»

Burns suggests mouth or gut activity may have roughed up seed coats, which encourages certain seeds to germinate.

And European researchers have documented some seed planting equipment that roughs up seeds, generating an airborne exhaust cloud containing insecticide - laced residues.

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Each dark - brown to black, rough - surfaced spike resembles a male pine flower catkin, which when viewed in cross section reveals a cartwheel of up to 8 minute, dark - red seeds.

A May wind, swelling up like a piece of fruit, with a rough outer skin, slimy flesh, dozens of seeds.