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  1. 1. a. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid. Source: opted
  2. 2. 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. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A seed. Source: opted
  4. 4. adj. pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen Source: wordnet
  5. 5. adj. containing seeds of later development Source: wordnet
  6. 6. 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. (Zoöl.) Same as Spermatheca. A seed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. Source: webster
  7. 7. A seed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. Source: adambom
  8. 8. j:100 a. pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen Source: ecdict

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