seed-corn

基本解释

None of the candidates wants to eat the seed-corn of California by hurting the universities.
然而，所有候选人们都不会损害大学的利益，籍此耗尽加州未来的发展资源。
Corn seed-coat is a major byproduct of the wet-milling cornstarch industry and rich in arabinoxylan.
玉米皮是玉米淀粉工业的主要副产品，含有大量的阿拉伯木聚糖。
A venture-capital fund of £325m has already been raised to back budding technology-based firms, helped on its way by a seed-corn public investment of £150m.
政府给予了1亿5英镑公众投资作为谷种，一个基于科技的企业在他的萌芽阶段风险基金达到了3亿2.5英镑。

They recognized that such programs were the technological seed-corn for the future, the means by which American security would be safeguarded and our interests protected down the road.
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These include figuring out ways in which to maintain the Russian nuclear weapons program's scientific and physical infrastructure and how to give away seed-corn technology developed by the national labs at enormous expense taxpayer.
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