资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   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. --Hare.

   {Seminal leaf} (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden.

   {Seminal receptacle}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Spermatheca}.