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Germinal

  1. Relating to spring
  2. Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
  3. (botany) Relating to a plant ovary
  4. (figurative) Serving as a point of origin; formative.
  5. (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).

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