seedstock
or seed stock
seed, tubers, or roots selected and kept for planting.
animals, especially pedigreed livestock, maintained for breeding purposes.
the animals needed to replenish a population, as after hunting or fishing.
Origin of seedstock
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How to use seedstock in a sentence
The seed stock for planting the following year should be selected and stored separately in a small bin.
The Vegetable Garden | AnonymousSeedsmen practise selecting a few fine, hard heads, from which to raise their seed stock.
Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them | James John Howard GregoryThe seed stock of big-horn sheep now alive in the United States aggregates a pitifully small number.
Our Vanishing Wild Life | William T. HornadayA perpetual close season was put on mountain sheep just in time to save a dozen small flocks as seed stock.
Our Vanishing Wild Life | William T. HornadayAcross these swelling floods one craft had been safely borne; in it was stored the seed-stock of a new world of man and beast.
The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 | Joseph Wild
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