Seminal

Adjective

 * 1) Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.
 * "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science.
 * 1) Of or relating to seed or semen.
 * 2) Creative or having the power to originate.

Synonyms

 * germinal
 * innovative, primary
 * innovative, formative

Derived terms

 * seminality
 * seminally

Thesaurus
aboriginal, abundant, basal, basic, benchmark, blooming, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, central, cervical, clitoral, conceptive, conceptual, copious, creative, crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, esemplastic, excretory, exuberant, fattening, fecund, fecundative, fertile, fertilizing, flourishing, formative, fructiferous, fructificative, fruitful, fundamental, gametic, gamic, generative, generous, genetic, genital, germinal, ideational, ideative, imaginative, important, in embryo, in ovo, incipient, influential, ingenious, innovative, inspired, inventive, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, landmark, life-giving, lush, luxuriant, multiparous, new, notional, original, originative, ovarian, penial, penile, phallic, plenteous, plentiful, potential, pregnant, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, procreant, procreative, productive, proliferous, prolific, propagative, protogenic, radical, reproductive, rheumy, rich, richening, rudimentary, salivant, salivary, salivous, scrotal, secretional, secretive, secretory, serous, sexual, shaping, sialagogic, spermatic, spermatozoal, spermatozoan, spermatozoic, spermic, sporal, sporogenous, sporoid, sporous, superabundant, swarming, teeming, telling, testicular, thriving, uberous, undeveloped, unprecedented, uterine, vaginal, visioned, vulval, vulvar, watering, watery

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 * Dutch:
 * German:, produktiv


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 * German: einflussreich, ,


 * Italian:
 * Serbian: утицајан
 * Spanish: influencial
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