Seed bank may refer to:
- Seedbank, a repository of preserved seeds
- The store of viable plant seed in an ecosystem; for example:
- Soil seed bank, the viable seed present in the soil;
- Canopy seed bank, the viable seed stored in the canopy of a serotinous tree or shrub.
Famous quotes containing the words seed and/or bank:
“The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)
“When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 2:3.