- (a.) Pertaining to, containing or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
- (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.
- (n.) A seed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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