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tane
noun

Alternate Written Forms:

[たね()]
tane

English Meaning(s) for たね

noun
  1. seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; kind; variety; quality; tone
  2. material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); subject; theme; (news) copy
  3. ingredient; leaven (bread); main ingredient of a sushi
  4. cause; source
  5. trick; secret; magician's trick; inside story
  6. paternal blood; lineage
  7. breed (of a stock); sperm; semen
  8. 10-point card (in hanafuda); tane; animal card (oft. as タネ)

Definition and Synonyms for たね

Seed a small hard fruit
Synonyms: たね, , , , 正身, , , 種子, 種子,
Kernel a single whole grain of a cereal
Synonyms: たね, , , 穀粒
Apple Of Discord a golden apple thrown into a banquet of the gods by Eris (goddess of discord--who had not been invited)
Synonyms: たね, ,
Come the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
Synonyms: たね, , , 精液
Form a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
Synonyms: たね, たぐい, タイプ, ジャンル, , 形態, 様式, 毛色, , , 種類, 部類, , 類型
Bone Of Contention the subject of a dispute
Synonyms: たね, ,
Material information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
Synonyms: たね, ねた, ユアン, , , , , 材料, , , , , 素材
Class a collection of things sharing a common attribute
Synonyms: , たね, クラス, カテゴリー, 分類, , 科目, , , 種別, 種族, 種目, 種類, 範疇, , , 部門, 部類, 階級
Species taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
Synonyms: たね, ,
Seed a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
Synonyms: たね, , , , 正身, 物種, , , 種子, 種子, 種物,
Stone the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
Synonyms: たね, 内果皮, 果核, , , 種子, 種子
Apple Of Discord the apple had `for the fairest' written on it and Hera and Athena and Aphrodite all claimed it
Synonyms: たね, ,
Apple Of Discord when Paris (prince of Troy) awarded it to Aphrodite it began a chain of events that led to the Trojan War
Synonyms: たね, ,

Categories たね is a member of

Prize something given as a token of victory
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Humour the liquid parts of the body
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Category a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
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Theme the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
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Information a message received and understood
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Collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole
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Taxonomic Group animal or plant group having natural relations
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Ovule a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant
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Seed Vessel the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary
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Caryopsis dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
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Fruit the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
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