About The Word Seminal
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Seminal
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What's The Definition Of Seminal?
[adj] containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"
[adj] pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; "seminal fluid" Synonyms | Synonyms for Seminal: germinal | original | originative Related Terms | Find terms related to Seminal: See Also | Seminal In Webster's Dictionary \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. --Hare.
{Seminal leaf} (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden.
{Seminal receptacle}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Spermatheca}.
\Sem"i*nal\, n. A seed. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. |
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