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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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.  --Hare. 
 
  {Seminal  leaf}  (Bot.),  a  seed  leaf,  or  cotyleden. 
 
  {Seminal  receptacle}.  (Zo["o]l.)  Same  as  {Spermatheca}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Seminal  \Sem"i*nal\,  n. 
  A  seed.  [Obs.]  --Sir  T.  Browne. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [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}]




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