Sperm : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Sperm	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sperm n the male reproductive cell; the male gamete; "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material" Synonym(s): sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon, spermatozoan
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gamete \Gam"ete\ (g[acr]m"[emac]t; g[adot]*m[emac]t"; the latter usually in compounds), n. [Gr. gameth` wife, or game`ths husband, fr. gamei^n to marry.] (Biol.) A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, {sperm} (male) and {egg} (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an o[94]spore. In Zo[94]l., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sperm \Sperm\, n.[Contr. fr. spermaceti.] Spermaceti. {Sperm oil}, a fatty oil found as a liquid, with spermaceti, in the head cavities of the sperm whale. {Sperm whale}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sperm \Sperm\, n.[F. sperme, L. sperma, Gr. [?][?][?], [?][?][?], from [?][?][?][?] to sow. Cf. {Spore}.] (Physiol.) The male fecundating fluid; semen. See {Semen}. {Sperm cell} (Physiol.), one of the cells from which the spermatozoids are developed. {Sperm morula}. (Biol.) Same as {Spermosphere}.