Word Meanings - SPERM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen. Sperm cell , one of the cells from which the spermatozoids are developed. -- Sperm morula. Same as Spermosphere.

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• SPERMATOCYTE
  See SPERMOBLAST
• SPERMATIC
  Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. Spermatic cord , the cord which suspends the testicle within the scrotum. It is made up of a connective tissue sheath inclosing the spermatic duct and accompanying
• SPERMATICAL
  Spermatic.
• FLUID
  A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves. Note: Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as species. Water, air, and steam are fluids. By analogy, the term is sometimes applied to electricity and magnetism,
• SPERMATOZOOID
  A spermatozoid.
• SPERMOPHYTE
  Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.
• SPERMISM
  The theory, formerly held by many, that the sperm or spermatozoön contains the germ of the future embryo; animalculism.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• SPERMATOGENETIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spermatogenesis; as, spermatogenetic function.
• SPERMATOPHOROUS
  Producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so-called spermatophorous cells.
• SPERMIC
  Of or pertaining to sperm, or semen.
• SPERMATOPHORE
  See SPERMOSPORE
• SPERM WHALE
  A very large toothed whale , having a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth. In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This whale sometimes grows to the
• SPERMIDIUM
  An achenium.
• SPERMATO-; SPERMO-
  Combining forms from Gr. seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SPERMOCOCCUS
  The nucleus of the sperm cell.
• SPERMATORRHEA; SPERMATORRHOEA
  Abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation.
• SPERMIST
  A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male , in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.
• SPERMATOGENESIS
  The development of the spermatozoids.
• ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
  Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• OOSPERM; OOESPERM
  The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• EMBOYSSEMENT
  An ambush. Chaucer.
• CASEMENTED
  Having a casement or casements.
• TRACHYSPERMOUS
  Rough-seeded. Gray.
• RENVERSEMENT
  A reversing.
• REIMBURSEMENT
  The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
• INCASEMENT
  1. The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased. 2. That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure.
• PENTASPERMOUS
  Containing five seeds.
• DISBURSEMENT
  1. The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes. 2. That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
• AUTOFECUNDATION
  Self-impregnation. Darwin.
• ASPERMOUS
  Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.