Defn: A semimute person.
SEMINAL Sem"i*nal, a. Etym: [L. seminalis, fr. semen, seminis, seed, akin to serere to sow: cf. F. seminal. See Sow to scatter seed.]
1. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
2. Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue. 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. (Zoöl.) Same as Spermatheca.
SEMINAL
Sem"i*nal, n.
Defn: A seed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
SEMINALITY
Sem`i*nal"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being seminal. Sir T. Browne.
SEMINAR
Sem`i*nar", n. [G. See Seminary, n.]
Defn: A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; — called also seminary.