Usually means: Foundational, highly influential in development.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word Seminal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. seminal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. seminal: Merriam-Webster
  3. seminal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. seminal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. seminal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. seminal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Seminal, seminal: Wordnik
  8. seminal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. seminal: Wiktionary
  10. seminal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. seminal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. seminal: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. seminal: Dictionary.com
  14. seminal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. seminal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Seminal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Seminal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. seminal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. seminal: Rhymezone
  20. Seminal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. seminal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. seminal: FreeDictionary.org
  23. seminal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. seminal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. seminal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seminal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seminal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. seminal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. seminal: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  4. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  5. seminal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seminal: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (seminal)

▸ adjective:  Of or relating to seed or semen.
▸ adjective:  Creative or having the power to originate.
▸ adjective:  Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A seed.

Similar:
germinal, originative, original, seminary, seminiferous, semenological, spermous, spermic, spermatial, spermatic, more...

Opposite:
ovular, ovarian

Types:
groundbreaking, pioneering, revolutionary, trailblazing, pathbreaking, more...

Phrases:
Seminal vesicles, seminal work, seminal vesicle, seminal fluid, seminal plasma, more...

Adjectives:
most, great, less, human, common, whole, particularly, direct, seminary

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Similar:
germinal, originative, original, seminary, seminiferous, semenological, spermous, spermic, spermatial, spermatic, more...

Opposite:
ovular, ovarian

Types:
groundbreaking, pioneering, revolutionary, trailblazing, pathbreaking, more...

Phrases:
Seminal vesicles, seminal work, seminal vesicle, seminal fluid, seminal plasma, seminal receptacle, seminal vesiculitis, seminal fluids, seminal ducts, seminal duct, seminal principle, Seminal colliculus, more...

Adjectives:
most, great, less, human, common, whole, particularly, direct, seminary

Colors:
    crimson,     burgundy,     maroon,     scarlet,     vermilion, more...



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