Seminal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seminal \Sem"i*nal\, n.
     A seed. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
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     2. Contained in seed.
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     3. Hence: Holding the first place in a series of developed
        results or consequents; serving as a source, or first
        principle; giving rise to related ideas or results;
        germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal
        principles of generation; seminal virtue; a seminal
        discovery.
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              The idea of God is, beyond all question or
              comparison, the one great seminal principle. --Hare.
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     {Seminal leaf} (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden.
  
     {Seminal receptacle}. (Zool.) Same as {Spermatheca}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seminal
       adj 1: pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; "seminal
              fluid"
       2: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one
          discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: {germinal},
           {originative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  132 Moby Thesaurus words for "seminal":
     aboriginal, abundant, basal, basic, benchmark, blooming, bountiful,
     bursting, bursting out, central, cervical, clitoral, conceptive,
     conceptual, copious, creative, crucial, elemental, elementary,
     embryonic, esemplastic, excretory, exuberant, fattening, fecund,
     fecundative, fertile, fertilizing, flourishing, formative,
     fructiferous, fructificative, fruitful, fundamental, gametic,
     gamic, generative, generous, genetic, genital, germinal,
     ideational, ideative, imaginative, important, in embryo, in ovo,
     incipient, influential, ingenious, innovative, inspired, inventive,
     lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous,
     landmark, life-giving, lush, luxuriant, multiparous, new, notional,
     original, originative, ovarian, penial, penile, phallic, plenteous,
     plentiful, potential, pregnant, primal, primary, prime, primeval,
     primitive, primordial, pristine, procreant, procreative,
     productive, proliferous, prolific, propagative, protogenic,
     radical, reproductive, rheumy, rich, richening, rudimentary,
     salivant, salivary, salivous, scrotal, secretional, secretive,
     secretory, serous, sexual, shaping, sialagogic, spermatic,
     spermatozoal, spermatozoan, spermatozoic, spermic, sporal,
     sporogenous, sporoid, sporous, superabundant, swarming, teeming,
     telling, testicular, thriving, uberous, undeveloped, unprecedented,
     uterine, vaginal, visioned, vulval, vulvar, watering, watery