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sown

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sown  (sn)
v.
A past participle of sow1.
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Adj.1.sown - sprinkled with seed; "a seeded lawn"
seeded
planted - set in the soil for growth
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These beds were the only sign of any attempt at gardening to be seen (except a solitary crocus that came up all by itself each spring in the grass, not because it wanted to, but because it could not help it), and these I had sown with ipomaea, the whole eleven, having found a German gardening book, according to which ipomaea in vast quantities was the one thing needful to turn the most hideous desert into a paradise.
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context
In order to secure the grave against secret disturbance, it was sown with thistles.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The Thebans sprung from the Dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus.
Oedipus At Colonus by Sophocles View in context
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