Definition of "seed stock" []

• A supply of seed for planting. (noun)
• A source of new entities: a seed stock of salmon in the river. (noun)

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• "While management felt this program was generally successful in 1980 participating producers provided 60% of Sabritas’s potatoes, the seed improvement program was costly and did not produce seed stock clearly superior to that commercially available."