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.
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. Zool. Same as Spermatheca.
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Sem"i*nal (?), n.
A seed.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
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