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sow

noun

1 sow

An adult female hog.

Roget 366: animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.    beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]; wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, ... show more

Roget 374: woman, she, her, female, petticoat.    feminality, muliebrity; womanhood etc. (adolescence) 131.    womankind; the sex, the fair; ... show more

Dutch: zeug, zaaien

verb

1 sow

Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth:
— She sowed sunflower seeds.

synonym: seed.

Roget 371: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, ... show more

Roget 73: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, ... show more

Dutch: uitzaaien

2 sow

Introduce into an environment.

3 sow

Place seeds in or on (the ground):
— Sow the ground with sunflower seeds.

synonyms: inseminate, sow in.

Dutch: uitzaaien


Moby thesaurus: Partlet, barrow, bed, bestrew, biddy, bitch, boar, bossy, broadcast, brood mare, bullion, button, cast, casting, circumfuse, cow, deal out, dibble, diffract, diffuse ... show more.

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