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1.
pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
2.
Botany. of or pertaining to seed.
3.
having possibilities of future development.
4.
highly original and influencing the development of future events: a seminal artist; seminal ideas.
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Seminal
is always a great word to know.
So is bryophytes. Does it mean:
| organism with having only one complete set of chromosomes |
| phylum of green, nonvascular, seedless plants comprised of true mosses, hornworts and liverworts |
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seminal
late 14c., "of seed or semen," from O.Fr. seminal (14c.), from L. seminalis, from semen (gen. seminis) "seed" (see semen). Fig. sense of "full of possibilities" is attested from 1630s.
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seminal sem·i·nal (sěm'ə-nəl)
adj.
Of, relating to, containing, or conveying semen or seed.
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