Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sperm"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gamete \Gam"ete\ (g[a^]m"[=e]t; g[.a]*m[=e]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["o]spore.
In Zo["o]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.[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}.
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["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sperm
n : the male reproductive cell; the male gamete [syn: {sperm
cell}, {spermatozoon}, {spermatozoan}]
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