Seminal /(?)/
Sem·i·nal
Seminal
a.
- Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
- Contained in seed.
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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.
The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
Phrases & Compounds
- Seminal leaf
- a seed leaf, or cotyleden.
- Seminal receptacle
- Same as Spermatheca.
Seminal
n.
- A seed. [Obs.]