[ˈsɛmɪnl], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- strongly influencing later developments
(e.g: his seminal work on chaos theory)

- relating to or denoting semen
(e.g: the spermatozoa are washed to separate them from the seminal plasma)


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