Seminal
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}, {seminal}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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