Sunflower edible

The answer

SEED

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SEED answer page.

Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SEED

Every other clue in this collection answered by SEED, most used first.

• Tournament ranking - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Germ - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Future flower - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Feeder filler - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Sesame ___ bun - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Start a garden - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Canary snack - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Progeny - used 28 times, most recently in 2015
• Bird food - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Origin - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Bit of bird food - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Kernel - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Plant starter - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Plant-to-be - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Sow - used 20 times, most recently in 2016
• Beginning - used 19 times, most recently in 2007
• Bird-feeder food - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Potential plant - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Future plant - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Tourney ranking - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Burpee buy - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Gardener's purchase - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• Tourney rank - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Acorn, essentially - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Gardener's spring purchase - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Bird feeder filler - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Bird feeder tidbit - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Pit - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Spore - used 12 times, most recently in 1996
• Germ of an idea - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of pearl - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
• Pomegranate bit - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Lentil, e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Parakeet food - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ pearl. - used 10 times, most recently in 1979
• Start of something big - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Tournament position - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Bird feeder bit - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Farmer's purchase - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Garden starter - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of money - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• Plant - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
• Sesame ____ - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Starting point - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Watermelon discard - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Acorn, for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Burger bun tidbit - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Go to ___ (deteriorate) - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Grain. - used 8 times, most recently in 1973
• It's for the birds - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Parrot snack - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Pip - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Pippin - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Provide capital for - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Spring purchase - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Sunflower start - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Tennis ranking - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Watermelon eater's discard - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Edible sunflower bit - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Growing need? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• It needs room to grow - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Ranked player - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Source - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Start of an idea - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Watermelon bit - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Avocado pit, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Flower starter - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• March Madness ranking - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ money - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Parakeets' eats - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Plant's beginning - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Start a lawn - used 6 times, most recently in 2004

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Edible root - TARO, used 49 times
• Edible ice cream holder - CONE, used 32 times
• Edible seaweed - KELP, used 23 times
• Edible tuber - TARO, used 17 times
• Edible pocket - PITA, used 16 times
• Sunflower supporter - STEM, used 16 times

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