Seminal

['semɪn(ə)l] or ['sɛmɪnl]

Definition

(adj.) pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; 'seminal fluid' .

Checker: Shari--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

(a.) 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.

(n.) A seed.

Edited by Edith

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Germinal, radical, original, rudimental.

Editor: Pierre

Definition

adj. pertaining to seed: radical: rudimentary.—n. (obs.) a seed.—n. Seminal′ity the germinating principle.—v.t. Sem′ināte to sow: to propagate: to disseminate.—n. Seminā′tion act of sowing: natural dispersion of seed: propagation.—adjs. Seminif′erous seed-bearing: producing seed; Seminif′ic producing seed.—ns. Seminificā′tion; Sem′inist one who holds that the admixture of the male and female seed originates the new individual.

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