Usually means: Foundational, highly influential in development.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word seminal:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. seminal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. seminal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. seminal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. seminal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. seminal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Seminal, seminal: Wordnik
  7. seminal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. seminal: Wiktionary
  9. seminal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. seminal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. seminal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. seminal: Dictionary.com
  13. seminal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. seminal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Seminal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Seminal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. seminal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. seminal: Rhymezone
  19. Seminal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. seminal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. seminal: Free Dictionary
  22. seminal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. seminal: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

(Note: See seminally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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