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   Seminal (?), 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. (Zool.) Same as Spermatheca.
   
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   Seminal (?), n. A seed. [Obs.]  Sir T. Browne.
   
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