Word Meanings - SPERMIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to sperm, or semen.

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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.
• 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.
• SPERMATOGONIUM
  A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass of small cells , which in turn give rise to 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.
• ASPERMOUS
  Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.