seminal

[SemĀ·i*nal]

Call something seminal when it's so original, so groundbreaking and awesome that it will influence everything that comes after it. Picasso produced more than a few seminal works of art, for example.

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Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

Adjective S.
containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"

Adjective
pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; "seminal fluid"


a.
Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

a.
Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.

n.
A seed.


Seminal

Sem"i*nal , a. [L. seminalis, fr. semen, seminis, seed, akin to serere to sow: cf. F. seminal. See Sow to scatter seed.] 1. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid. 2. Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.
The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
Seminal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden. -- Seminal receptacle. (Zo'94l.) Same as Spermatheca.

Seminal

Sem"i*nal , n. A seed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

A seed.

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