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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 sem·i·nal /ˈsɛmənḷ/
 (a.)精液的,種子的,生殖的

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 sem·i·nal /ˈsɛmənḷ/ 形容詞
 精液的,種子的,輸精管,初期的,原始的,種子的,精液的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sem·i·nal a.
 1. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
 2. Contained in seed.
 3. Hence: Holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; serving as a source, or first principle; giving rise to related ideas or results; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue; a seminal discovery.
    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. Zool. Same as Spermatheca.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sem·i·nal n. A seed. [Obs.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 seminal
      adj 1: pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; "seminal
             fluid"
      2: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one
         discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal,
          originative]