seedhouse

English

Etymology

From seed +‎ house.

Noun

seedhouse (plural seedhouses)

1. A business that specializes in selling seeds, especially one that operates via mail order.
   • 1994, Wesley Ellis, Lone Star 146/trapper, →ISBN:

     They found him slumped at his desk in a small, square office, whose walls were tacked with dodger posters and a calendar from a seedhouse showing a golden cornucopia spilling out such big garden vegetables they were scary.

   • 2011, Ruth Stout, Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent, →ISBN:

     I am particularly baffled by those who wait to buy their seeds until they are ready to plant them, then have to get them at a store instead of from a seedhouse.

   • 2012, Sue Shephard, Seeds of Fortune: A Gardening Dynasty, →ISBN:

     There was also a seedhouse which sold (both retail and wholesale with discount) vegetable, flower and agricultural seeds as well as garden tools and 'other requisites'.

2. A building that is used for storing seeds.
   • 2005, Bhuwon Ratna Sthapit, On Farm Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity in Nepal, →ISBN:

     To date, 37 landraces of rice, 5 of sponge gourd, 3 of pigeon pea and 2 of finger millet seeds have been collected and stored in the seedhouse (Table 2) and this number is increasing.

   • 2007, Christopher S. Wren, Walking to Vermont, →ISBN:

     They thrived by cultivating all kinds of seeds for sale, storing them in a seedhouse five stories high.

   • 2015, Roger W. Barbour, Wayne H. Davis, Mammals Of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 226:

     In a single room of a seedhouse in California 235 house mice were trapped within a year, and during a mouse outbreak in the central farmlands of California the population was estimated at 200,000 per hectare.