Word Meanings - POLYSPERMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoön into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum.

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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• SPERMOCOCCUS
  The nucleus of the sperm cell.
• VITELLUS
  The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.
• 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.
• SPERM
  Spermaceti. Sperm oil, a fatty oil found as a liquid, with spermaceti, in the head cavities of the sperm whale. -- Sperm whale. See in the Vocabulary.
• SPERMULE
  A sperm cell. Haeckel.
• ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
  Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
• OOSPERM; OOESPERM
  The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour.
• TRACHYSPERMOUS
  Rough-seeded. Gray.
• PENTASPERMOUS
  Containing five seeds.
• ASPERMOUS
  Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.
• MENISPERMINE
  An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.
• ANGIOSPERMATOUS
  See ANGIOSPERMOUS
• POLYSPERMY
  Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoön into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum.