"From this fiction it appears (says Sale) that the doctrine of pre-existence is not unknown to the Mohammedans, and there is some little conformity between it and the modern theory of generatio ex animalculis in semine marium."
"It is equivalent to the other expression: "from the seed of David according to the flesh" – "factum ex semine David secundum carnem" Romans 1:3."
"-Of plants, seed: manu spargere semen: terra semen excepit: iacto semine, V.: quercus de semine Dodonaeo, O."