Seminal vs Oldest - What's the difference?

Seminal is a related term of oldest.

is that seminal is seminal while oldest is (old).

(en adjective)

Of or relating to seed or semen.

Creative or having the power to originate.

Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.

* Hare

The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.

"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science.

* (relating to seed) germinal * (creative) innovative, primary * (highly influential) innovative, formative

* seminality * seminally

(en noun)

(obsolete) A seed.

* Sir Thomas Browne

the seminals of spiders and scorpions

(head)

(old)

* oldermost (in Western dialects of the US)