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spermatozoön |
spermatozoa |
spermatozoan |
spermatozoid |
spermatozooid |
spermatozoon
| spermic
| spermicidal
| spermicide
| spermidium
| spermism
spermatozoon
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spermatozoon has 1 sense
- spermatozoon(n = noun.body) sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoan - the male reproductive cell; the male gamete; "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material" has parts: flagellum, acrosome
is a part of come, cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid, male reproductive system
is a kind of gamete
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spermatozoon, n. (pl. spermatozoa) the mature motile sex cell in animals.
Derivative
spermatozoal adj. spermatozoan adj. spermatozoic adj.
Etymology
SPERM + Gk zoion animal
THESAURUS
spermatozoon
Anlage, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, bud, egg, embryo, germ, germen, loins, male gamete, milt, nucleus, ovum, pollen, protein, rudiment, scum, seed, semen, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoidROGET THESAURUS
spermatozoon
Organization
N organization, organized world, organized nature, living nature, animated nature, living beings, organic remains, fossils, protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein, albumen, structure, organization, organism, biology, natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, zoology, botany, microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, naturalist, archegenesis, antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph, ecology, oecology, erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination, isogamy, oogamy, karyaster, macrogamete, microgamete, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism, morphology, taxonomy, organic, organized, karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.
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