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Chondrules, small seedlike rocks measuring up to just a few millimeters across, are thought to have formed some 4.5 billion years ago, shortly after the birth of our solar system.

From Scientific American • Dec. 8, 2020

But a number of survivalist species of bacteria are able to form inactive seedlike spores.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2011

The skin cells take root, seedlike, in the moist raw surface, absorb nutriment, proliferate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each fertile blossom is followed by four little seedlike fruits in the bottom of the calyx, which remains attached to the plant.

From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville)

As, then, in Augustine's opinion it is contended that the seedlike forms of all natural effects were implanted in the creature when corporeally created, so straightway from the beginning the angels were created in grace.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint