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. Seminal leaf (Bot.) a seed leaf, or cotyleden. Seminal receptacle (Zool.) Same as Spermatheca.
n.	1.	A seed.

Adj.	1.	seminal - pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; "seminal fluid"
	2.	seminal - containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" Synonyms: germinal, originative

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