Favorites, at times (5 letters)

{ Answer }

SEEDS

{ Related Clues }

Beginnings
Germs
Grains
Origins
Pippins
Pips
Pits
Spores
Acorns, e.g.
Avian food
Burpee product
Burpee products
Burpee's packetful
Caraway produce
Core group?
Core units?
Favorites, often
Gardener's purchase
Likely winners
Nursery packets
Plant starters
Plants' beginnings
Provender for parrots
Sesames, e.g.
Sowers' growers
Spring purchase
Starting points
Tennis rankings
Tournament favorites
Watermelon throwaways
Acorns and lima beans
Bird feeder fill
Fertilized, mature ovules
Most likely winners
Things put in rows
Trail mix tidbits
Does some spring farmwork
They may be sown

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{ Notes }

The answer SEEDS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.

{ Definition }

SEED as a noun:

1. a small hard fruit

2. a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

3. (seeded player, seed) = one of the outstanding players in a tournament

4. (source, seed, germ) = anything that provides inspiration for later work

5. (semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come) = the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

SEED as a verb:

1. go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed"

2. help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

3. bear seeds

4. (sow, sough, seed) = place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds"

5. distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds

6. sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds"

7. inoculate with microorganisms

8. remove the seeds from; "seed grapes"