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A seed.
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.
<botany>" (Hare) Seminal leaf Same as Spermatheca.
Origin: L. Seminalis, fr. Semen, seminis, seed, akin to serere to sow: cf. F. Seminal. See Sow to scatter seed.
(01 Mar 1998)
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