Definition of "seed-down" [seed-down]

• The down on certain seeds, as the cotton. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If it does, we shall have to harvest a thistle-crop of tribal and intertribal trouble throughout the Arabian peninsula, and the seed-down of unrest will blow all over Syria and"
• "High, high, he rose, until he circled among the clouds, small-seeming and swift, like seed-down in a whirlwind."
• "_ -- The portions of the plant used are the lowest parts of the leaves, or scales, of the calyx; and also the fleshy receptacles of the flower, freed from the bristles and seed-down."