neuter · bīja 1 · bīja 2
seed
seed; germ; generating element
Bīja (neuter) [cf. Vedic bīja] 1. seed, germ, semen, spawn. Used very frequently in figurative sense: see on similes JPTS 1907, 116. — D I 135 (°bhatta seed-corn and food); III 44 (the five kinds: see below under °gāma); M I 457; S I 21, 134, 172, 227; III 54, 91; IV 315; A I 32 (ucchu°), 135, 223, 229, 239; III 404; IV 237; V 213 (ucchu°); Snp 77 (saddhā bījaṃ tapo vuṭṭhi, cf. Pj II 142 f., where a detailed discussion on bīja is found), 209, 235 (khīṇa° adjective figurative); Ja I 242 (tiṇa°-ādīni grass and other seeds), 281; Pv I 1 1 ; Vism 555 (in simile); Pj I 194 (on Snp 235, in another comparison); Saddh 24, 270 f., 318. nibbatta° (or nivatta°) (adjective) that which has dropped its seed (hence a lawful food) Vin I 215, Cf. II 109; IV 35. 2. element, in udaka° whose element is the water Ja VI 160. -gāma seed-group, seed-kingdom, seed-creation (opposite bhūta-gāma). There are 5 kinds of seeds usually enumerated, e.g. at D I 5 (explained at Sv I 77, translated at D.B. I 6 and passim ), viz. mūla°, khandha°, phalu°, agga°, bija°, or plants propagated by roots, cuttings, joints, buddings, shoots, seeds ( D.B. III 40: tubers, shoots, berries, joints, seeds). The same set occurs at D III 44, 47; Vin IV 34; Pj II 144. — Without reference to the 5 kinds at M III 34; S V 46; Miln 33; -jāta species of seed S III 54; -bīja one of the 5 groups of edible or useful plants, falling under bījagāma. It is explained at Vin IV 35 and Sv I 81 by the terms pubbaṇṇa (i.e. the seven dhaññāni or grains, sāli, vīhi, yava, godhūma, kaṅgu, varaka, kudrūsa) and aparaṇṇa (i.e. beans and other leguminous plants, and gourds such as mugga, māsa, tila, kulattha, alābu, kumbhaṇḍa); -sakaṭa a cart (°load) of seeds Pj II 137.
【中】 種子，細菌，産生元素。~kosa,【陽】 花的胚囊，果皮，陰囊。~gāma,【陽】 種子王國。~jāta,【中】 種子的種類。~bīja,【中】 以種子繁殖的植物。
(nt, nt) seed; germ seed, germ
(nt, nt) sprouting; germinating; propagation; vegetative reproduction generating element
(adj, adj) fertile; productive