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