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comparative more seminal, superlative most seminal
Of or relating to seed or semen. quotations examples
During the summer, he studied calmars at Lisbon, but found no appearance of any roe, nor any reservoir which appeared to be destined for the reception of the seminal liquor; and it was in the middle of December, that he began to discern the first traces of a new vessel replete with a milty juice.
1792, George Louis Le Clerc, Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History, page 126
Creative or having the power to originate. examples
Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research. quotations examples
The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
1827, Julius Hare, Augustus William Hare, Guesses at Truth
For a seminal contribution to the economics of fertility, ....
2000, Walter Nicholson, Intermediate microeconomics and its application
plural seminals
(obsolete) A seed. quotations
the seminals of spiders and scorpions
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]