Dictionary Definition
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" [syn:
germinal, originative]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
Synonyms
- sense relating to seed germinal
- sense creative innovative, primary
- sense highly influential innovative, formative
Derived terms
Translations
of or relating to seed or semen
- Dutch: zaad
- Spanish: seminal
- Finnish: siemen
creative or having the power to originate
- Spanish: germinal
- Dutch: creatief
highly influential
- Dutch: invloedrijk
- Finnish: uraauurtava, mullistava
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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