reseed

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reseed

verb reseeds · reseeding · reseeded

intransitive, transitive To sow seeds again; to apply seed to (a plot of land) again. When the birds ate the seeds he had planted, the farmer was forced to reseed the field.
Similar: resow
intransitive, reflexive, of a non perennial plant To produce seeds to ensure the following generation without human intervention; to self-seed. The marigolds had reseeded themselves in the flower box, so he didn't have to buy new ones this year.
transitive To reset the input of an algorithm so as to ensure different results. The game reseeded its random number algorithm with a time-based value each time the game was restarted.

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@misc{reseed_2026,
  title = {reseed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/reseed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}