SEMINAL

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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

2.
a.

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.

3.
n.

A seed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.


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