Germinal
- Relating to spring
- Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
- (botany) Relating to a plant ovary
- (figurative) Serving as a point of origin; formative.
- (figurative) Highly influential; seminal. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Usage notes
In sense “highly influential”, primarily used as a consciously feminist alternative to male seminal (germ (“egg”) vs. semen).