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• a  pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen
  seminal fluid
• s  containing seeds of later development
  seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another

• Undersea, the young writer's first publication in a national magazine (September 1937), was seminal in theme and tone to all her later writing.
• It certainly didn't in 1937, when Turing's seminal paper, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," appeared in "Proceedings of the London .
• The liberator of South Africa looks at the seminal work of the liberator of India.

• germinal
• originative

News & Articles

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• Bruins-Blackhawks Connection Dates Back to Franchise-Shaking Trade (Video)
  Bruins-Blackhawks cannot exactly be classified as a “rivalry” nowadays, but the two Original Six franchises share a whole boatload of history. The seminal moment in that history came on May 15, 1967, when Bruins general manager Milt Schmidt acquired Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield from Chicago. Those three joined Bobby Orr and the rest […]
  June 13, 2013 - New England Sports Network
• The True Comic Story About 3 Primatologists Who Changed How We See the World
  Primates tells the connected stories of three seminal primatologists, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, deftly interweaving the three women's stories in an account that's equal parts biography and scientific history. Written by Jim Ottaviani and drawn and lettered by Maris Wicks, it draws from the diaries of all three scientists¿as well as a slew of other sources detailed in a ...
  June 12, 2013 - Wired News
• Few fireworks as stumbling Croatia joins a troubled EU
  By Zoran Radosavljevic ZAGREB (Reuters) - At 700,000 euros, Croatia's budget to celebrate arguably the biggest moment in its 22 years as an independent state might seem a little modest. When Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union in 2007, champagne flowed and thousands of cheering people poured into the streets to mark a seminal moment in their emergence from Communism. Croatia's July 1 ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Bert Sugar in Forbes
  Jerry was the seminal figure in bringing evangelical and fundamentalist Christians out of the catacombs and energizing them into a political voting bloc that helped elect Ronald Reagan twice and was responsible for a lot of Republican success after... Cal Thomas http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Thomas&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHOQmtv33jbGGFW80GH3ZE55otivg Guardian Unlimited http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6636870,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH19CL0UMwTIRcvq-Tsjv2aoPz9mQ May 16, 2007 88042 117445 seminal We owe a debt to understand Jack Johnson and what he stood for, what he came up against in that time and that place," Sugar said. "He's a seminal figure in many ways and his life really does transcend just boxing."
• Dick Durbin in Forbes
  This to me is the seminal issue,said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, another member of Leahy's panel.