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   seminal

   /ˈsɛmɪnl/

   adjective

   • 1. strongly influencing later developments: "his seminal work on chaos theory" Similar influentialformativegroundbreakingpioneeringoriginalcreativeinnovativeimaginativeproductivemajorimportantOpposite irrelevantunimportant
   • 2. relating to or denoting semen: "the spermatozoa are washed to separate them from the seminal plasma" Similar spermaticspermseedtechnical:spermatozoalspermatozoan
   • ▪ relating to or derived from the seed of a plant: "the seminal root system"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in seminal (sense 2)): from Old French seminal or Latin seminalis, from semen ‘seed’. seminal (sense 1) dates from the mid 17th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. seminally adverb

   Scrabble Points: 9

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