Seminal /(?)/

Sem·i·nal

Seminal

a.
  1. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
  2. Contained in seed.
  3. 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.
    — Hare.

Phrases & Compounds

Seminal leaf
a seed leaf, or cotyleden.
Seminal receptacle
Same as Spermatheca.

Seminal

n.
  1. A seed. [Obs.]