1formalAIMPORTANT a seminalarticle, book etc is important, and influences the way things develop in the future 〔文章、书等〕开创性的,有重大影响的
a seminal study of eighteenth-century France
对18世纪法国的开创性研究
2.[only before noun] technicalHBH producing or containing semen 产生精液的;含精液的
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seminal• Getting back to the problem, say you start with Led Zeppelin, a seminalelectric blues band.• ChuckBerry is one of the seminal figures of rock 'n' roll.• Ford, among seminal figures of the day, got the Dos Passos treatment.• It was smelly, acidy, like seminalfluid.• Basically he was already an immortal-a seminal influence and an inspiration to many other musicians.• But Willadsen's clonedlamb was seminal nevertheless, in concept and in technique.• It has become one of the basic and seminaltexts in the sociological study of this topic.• We begin by looking at one of the seminaltheories of soccerspectatordisorder, the Marxist approach of Ian Taylor.
Originseminal
(1300-1400)Frenchséminal, from Latinseminalis, from semen; → SEMEN