seminalPronunciation: /ˈsɛmɪn(ə)l/Translate seminal | into Italian Definition of seminal adjective 1strongly influencing later developments:his seminal work on chaos theory 2relating to or denoting semen: the spermatozoa are washed to separate them from the seminal plasma Botany relating to or derived from the seed of a plant: the seminal root systemDerivatives seminally adverb Origin: late Middle English (in sense 2): from Old French seminal or Latin seminalis, from semen 'seed'. sense 1 dates from the mid 17th centuryseminal in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of seminal in the US English dictionary
