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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Seminal \Sem"i*nal\, a. [L. seminalis, fr. semen, seminis, seed, akin to serere to sow: cf. F. seminal. See Sow to scatter seed.]
Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
Contained in seed.
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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.
The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
--Hare.Seminal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden.
Seminal receptacle. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Spermatheca.
Seminal \Sem"i*nal\, n.
A seed. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "of seed or semen," from Old French seminal (14c.) and directly from Latin seminalis, from semen (genitive seminis) "seed" (see semen). Figurative sense of "full of possibilities" is attested from 1630s. Related: Seminally; seminality.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to seed or semen. 2 creative or having the power to originate. 3 high influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research. n. (context obsolete English) A seed.
WordNet
adj. pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; "seminal fluid"
containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative]
Wikipedia
Seminal may refer to:
- Relating to semen
- (of a work, event, or person) Very influential on later developments.
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Usage examples of "seminal".
Several years ago, two Parisian naturalists named Dubuisson and Gille developed a method of inducing hypertrophic growth in a seminal foetus.
Marie Travis, the serologist who had done the laboratory examination on the seminal fluid recovered from the body and bed linens of Darra Goldswit.
She could choose whether or not to embrace the spermatophore and place it in her seminal receptacle.
To his awed surprise he soon injected her, as she had implied, with so much seminal fluid as to wet both their thighs halfway to the knee when they stood up afterwards.
Gently she drew herself to his leg, turned herself about and ran her oral tongue into his rectum, quickly finding the information taps and verifying his full seminal readiness.
Among the recipe books were some interesting works: seminal texts by the Ancients on spontaneous and vermiparous generation, experimental investigations by fringe alchemists, how to generate different dog breeds, how to spawn monsters, create golems, summon demons!
But then Mason, Wilson, and John Adams, no less than Jefferson, were, as they all appreciated, drawing on long familiarity with the seminal works of the English and Scottish writers John Locke, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, and Henry St.
Between four and seven years he had seminal discharges, but it was not determined whether the semen contained spermatozoa.
GENERAL NEURASTHENIA, or nervous exhaustion, may also produce a local weakness of the sexual centres of the brain and spinal cord, with symptoms at least resembling those of partial impotency and great irritability of the sexual organs, or a complete impotence, with premature seminal discharge whenever coition is attempted.
When there is great weakness, seminal discharges may be induced by lifting heavy weights, pressure upon the genital organs, horseback riding, straining at stool, or even upon urinating, as observed when muscular efforts are made to expel the last drops, which appear thick and viscid.
Again, the habit of self-pollution weakens all the structures of the genital organs, and induces seminal waste, which may lead to a morbid diminution in the size of the prostate gland.
In aggravated cases, the seminal sacs are so weakened that the warmth of the bed, friction of the clothing, reading obscene literature, viewing indecent pictures, indulging in lewd conversation, or even being in the presence of women, produces a waste of semen--many times unattended by erections.
Fudgepacker, seminal Arthouse B Movie maker of the late Fifties and early Nineteen Sixties.
I would nevertheless like to draw on those aspects of his presentation that remain seminal in this discussion.
And that is the Ernest Fudgepacker, seminal Arthouse B Movie maker of the late Fifties and early Nineteen Sixties.