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Seminal adj.

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

Contained in seed.

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. "The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle."

Seminal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden.

Seminal receptacle. (Zool.) Same as Spermatheca.

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Etymology of 'Seminal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Seminal" Quotes from Famous Books

... physical inability to perform the sexual function. It is frequently due to conjugal excesses, but the principal cause is the baneful widespread practice of masturbation, or self-pollution. It manifests itself in what is known as Spermatorrhea, or involuntary emissions of the seminal fluid, and if allowed to continue unchecked, speedily depletes the vitality of the sufferer, and renders him a physical wreck. Do not be deceived by the lying advertisements of unprincipled charlatans, ...

— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell

... AND SPECIFIC REMEDY for all the ills known as seminal losses. As right eating cures a sick stomach and right breathing diseased lungs, so the right use of the sexual organs will bring relief and restoration. Many men who have been sufferers from indiscretions of youth, have married, and were soon cured of spermatorrhoea ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... well-understood, private interest to the false and ill-calculated private interest of the monopolizing company they belong to. Eminent characters, to be sure, overrule places and circumstances. I have nothing to say to that virtue which shoots up in full force by the native vigor of the seminal principle, in spite of the adverse soil and climate that it grows in. But speaking of things in their ordinary course, in a country of monopoly there can be no patriotism. There may be a party spirit, but ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

Words linked to "Seminal" : seminal vesicle, originative, seminal fluid