seminal 音标拼音: [s'ɛmənəl]
a . 精液的,种子的,生殖的
精液的,种子的,生殖的
seminal adj 1 :
pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen ;
"
seminal fluid "
2 :
containing seeds of later development ; "
seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another " [
synonym :
{
germinal }, {
originative }, {
seminal }]
Seminal \
Sem "
i *
nal \,
a . [
L .
seminalis ,
fr .
semen ,
seminis ,
seed ,
akin to serere to sow :
cf .
F .
seminal .
See {
Sow }
to scatter seed .]
1 .
Pertaining to ,
containing ,
or consisting of ,
seed or semen ;
as ,
the seminal fluid .
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2 .
Contained in seed .
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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 .
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The idea of God is ,
beyond all question or comparison ,
the one great seminal principle . --
Hare .
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{
Seminal leaf } (
Bot .),
a seed leaf ,
or cotyleden .
{
Seminal receptacle }. (
Zool .)
Same as {
Spermatheca }.
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Seminal \
Sem "
i *
nal \,
n .
A seed . [
Obs .] --
Sir T .
Browne .
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132 Moby Thesaurus words for "
seminal ":
aboriginal ,
abundant ,
basal ,
basic ,
benchmark ,
blooming ,
bountiful ,
bursting ,
bursting out ,
central ,
cervical ,
clitoral ,
conceptive ,
conceptual ,
copious ,
creative ,
crucial ,
elemental ,
elementary ,
embryonic ,
esemplastic ,
excretory ,
exuberant ,
fattening ,
fecund ,
fecundative ,
fertile ,
fertilizing ,
flourishing ,
formative ,
fructiferous ,
fructificative ,
fruitful ,
fundamental ,
gametic ,
gamic ,
generative ,
generous ,
genetic ,
genital ,
germinal ,
ideational ,
ideative ,
imaginative ,
important ,
in embryo ,
in ovo ,
incipient ,
influential ,
ingenious ,
innovative ,
inspired ,
inventive ,
lachrymal ,
lachrymose ,
lacrimatory ,
lactational ,
lacteal ,
lacteous ,
landmark ,
life -
giving ,
lush ,
luxuriant ,
multiparous ,
new ,
notional ,
original ,
originative ,
ovarian ,
penial ,
penile ,
phallic ,
plenteous ,
plentiful ,
potential ,
pregnant ,
primal ,
primary ,
prime ,
primeval ,
primitive ,
primordial ,
pristine ,
procreant ,
procreative ,
productive ,
proliferous ,
prolific ,
propagative ,
protogenic ,
radical ,
reproductive ,
rheumy ,
rich ,
richening ,
rudimentary ,
salivant ,
salivary ,
salivous ,
scrotal ,
secretional ,
secretive ,
secretory ,
serous ,
sexual ,
shaping ,
sialagogic ,
spermatic ,
spermatozoal ,
spermatozoan ,
spermatozoic ,
spermic ,
sporal ,
sporogenous ,
sporoid ,
sporous ,
superabundant ,
swarming ,
teeming ,
telling ,
testicular ,
thriving ,
uberous ,
undeveloped ,
unprecedented ,
uterine ,
vaginal ,
visioned ,
vulval ,
vulvar ,
watering ,
watery
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