seed-corn

SEED-CORN

semen: sementis

seed-corn: perh. sēmentis (seed sown: rare in this sense): when a shower comes, the s. of many days springs up in one day, ubi venit imber, multorum dierum s. uno die surgit, Col. 2, 8. (Better simply, semina, cf. Virg. G. 1, 193; or, perh. frumentum ad serendum, ad sementes faciendas.)