seminal

fondateur, majeur

Qui apporte des idées nouvelles importantes et influence fortement les travaux ou développements ultérieurs.

En anglais simple : Introducing important new ideas that strongly influence later work or developments.

• She wrote a seminal book.
• His seminal study changed how doctors treated the disease.
• These papers became seminal works in modern economics.

Synonymes : influential, groundbreaking, pioneering

Expressions courantes : a seminal work, a seminal study, a seminal paper

séminal

Qui concerne les graines ou le liquide contenant les cellules reproductrices masculines.

En anglais simple : Connected with seeds or with the liquid containing male reproductive cells.

• The laboratory examined the seminal fluid.
• Seminal vesicles produce part of the liquid in semen.
• Researchers measured proteins in seminal plasma.

Synonymes : germinal

Expressions courantes : seminal fluid, seminal vesicles, seminal plasma

créateur, fécond

Capable de produire des idées nouvelles ou de faire naître de nouvelles choses.

En anglais simple : Able to create new ideas or give rise to new things.

• He possessed a seminal imagination.
• Her seminal mind constantly produced fresh ideas.
• The movement's seminal energy gave rise to new artistic forms.

Synonymes : creative, generative, inventive

Contraires : uncreative

Expressions courantes : a seminal mind, seminal power, a seminal force