Found 3 items, similar to Seminal.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: seminal
mani
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: seminal
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Seminal
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. (Zo["o]l.) Same as
Spermatheca.
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Seminal
\Sem"i*nal\, n.
A seed. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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