seminal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   strongly influencing later ideas, work, or developments; formative and original

   Her seminal study changed how researchers understood memory.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to, containing, or conveying semen

   The laboratory analyzed a sample of seminal fluid.

3. 3
   adj

   botany: relating to a seed or reproduction by seed

   The cultivated variety rarely preserves the same traits through seminal propagation.

Common collocations

• seminal vesicle Adjective + noun

From Middle English seminal and Old French seminal, from Latin seminalis, 'of seed or semen,' based on semen, 'seed.' The figurative sense treats an influential idea or work as a seed from which later developments grow.

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