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seedstock

or seed stock

[ seed-stok ]

noun

  1. seed, tubers, or roots selected and kept for planting.
  2. animals, especially pedigreed livestock, maintained for breeding purposes.
  3. the animals needed to replenish a population, as after hunting or fishing.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of seedstock1

First recorded in 1925–30; seed + stock
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They’re sold to Asian aquaculture companies for use as seedstock so they can be grown to maturity and used as food, such as sushi.

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The fishermen seek the eels, called elvers, so they can be sold as seedstock to Asian aquaculture companies.

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“Because you would expect that there would still be some seedstock in the soil and the birds and wildlife will be dispersing seeds.”

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Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service will fuel the study at the seedstock, cow-calf and stocker producer stages of the beef supply chain, the institute said in a news release.

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Mr. Zinke was sympathetic, according to Mountain Journal, an environmental news site, to “a carefully orchestrated populist revolt” by eastern Montana ranchers “using Bundyesque fear tactics to thwart Yellowstone bison from being relocated there as seedstock for building new public herds.”

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