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Meanings of seminal in English

Containing seeds of later development.

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Usage of seminal in English
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Yet few buildings have played such a seminal role in American history.
The Guardian
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Herman and the Ephemerides mention cases of calculi in the seminal vesicles.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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His research on New Zealanders at Gallipoli is critically regarded as seminal.
Radio NZ
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The times when this seminal event occurred were surely ripe for it.
Medium raw: a bloody valentine to the world of food and the peop...
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But Marikana was the seminal event of 2012 and post-democracy South Africa.
The Guardian
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The positive margin rate and incidence of seminal vesicle involvement remained stable.
Pubmed
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For Alastair Cook Broad's spell at Nottingham was also a seminal moment.
The Guardian
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It lays out all the issues to consider and cites seminal sources.
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Everyone accepts that Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play is a seminal theatrical work.
The Guardian
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DNase activity in the original seminal plasma was abolished after HFF co-incubation.
Pubmed
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IGFBP-2 is a major IGFBP in the prostate and in seminal fluid.
Pubmed
12
Some metastatic tumors have characteristics similar to the seminal vesicle ES tumor.
Pubmed
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Continual seminal losses, he claimed, would lead to a change in personality.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
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Drosophila melanogaster males transfer seminal fluid proteins along with sperm during mating.
Pubmed
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In America, they love to give seminal sporting moments these pseudo-historic titles.
The Irish Times
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In two other soils, only the thicker barley seminal roots were detectable.
Pubmed
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