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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sem·i·nal a.
 1. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
 2. Contained in seed.
 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.
    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.