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seminal

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"Highly influential"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɛmɪnəl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeilmnsStarts with SEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. containing seeds of later development

Word origin

From Middle English seminal, semynal, from Old French seminal, seminale, from Latin sēminālis, ultimately from oblique stem of Latin sēmen, sēminis (“seed”) + -al.

Used in a sentence

  • "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science.
  • The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
  • For a seminal contribution to the economics of fertility, ....

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