Category:Seminal

Sem"i*nal, a. Etym: [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.

2. 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. 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. (zoöl.) Same as spermatheca.

Seminal Sem"i*nal, n.

Defn: a seed. [obs.] Sir t. Browne.